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Withdrawn in the late nineties after a short career, the Kirov-class ship waited years for a contract, then years more for funding. The hull...
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Withdrawn in the late nineties after a short career, the Kirov-class ship waited years for a contract, then years more for funding. The hull...
The first submarine of this class, the Sankt-Peterburg, was laid down in December 1997 and launched in 2004. Complications from its propulsion system arose...
The Admiral Nakhimov entered the yard in 1999 and sailed again in 2025 — a refit that quadrupled in cost, outlived its sister ships,...
She was the only one of her kind: a titanium submarine built to dive below the reach of NATO's weapons, and she set a...
Russia began overhauling Admiral Kuznetsov after its troubled Syria deployment. Then the PD-50 drydock sank, a 70-ton crane tore through the flight deck, and...
Twelve angled launch tubes run along each side of an Oscar II, outside the pressure hull, carrying 24 P-700 Granit missiles. Each weighs about...
K-222 reached 44.7 knots submerged, roughly 51 miles per hour, from two reactors and 80,000 shaft horsepower. No crewed submarine has publicly surpassed it....
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...
Moiseyev says the rebuilt Admiral Nakhimov — back at Severomorsk for the first time in 27 years — joins the fleet in 2026. Open-source...
Russia has moved the nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov into final sea trials after nearly three decades out of frontline service. The rebuilt ship may...