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After almost three decades away, Russia's nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov has returned to Severomorsk — refitted for up to $5 billion and armed with...
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After almost three decades away, Russia's nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov has returned to Severomorsk — refitted for up to $5 billion and armed with...
Russia designed the Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate to modernize a navy that hasn't built a destroyer-sized warship since the Cold War. Then the program stalled...
The battlecruiser was supposed to be extinct after 1945 — until the Soviet Union built four nuclear-powered Kirov-class giants, the largest surface warships since...
The Admiral Kuznetsov was meant to rival America's carriers. Instead it became the most cursed warship of the modern era — smoking like a...
Anytime I ever brought up Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the tragedy we call the Admiral Kuznetsov, U.S. Naval officials either laugh or cringe. As...
The Soviet Union’s top admiral begged Stalin for aircraft carriers. Stalin gave him zero, and seven decades later, Russia still hasn’t built a single...
The Project 1143 Krechyet aircraft carriers, more commonly known as the Kiev-class, are a unique class of Soviet-built aircraft carriers. Because of the USSR’s...
With work on Admiral Kuznetsov discontinued, the future of Russia’s aircraft carrier ambitions is currently in question. In 2015, a new type of aircraft...
The Kirov-Class Was Built to Hunt U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Using P-700 Granit Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles When Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov finally...
State Shipbuilding Chief Andrei Kostin Says the Admiral Kuznetsov Will Likely Be Sold or Scrapped In July 2025, Andrei Kostin, the chairman of Russia’s...