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Kiev-class: Russia’s Aircraft Carrier-Cruiser Hybrid – The Soviet Union’s experimentation with fixed-wing aircraft carriers was anything but standard. As the second carrier-class built by...
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Kiev-class: Russia’s Aircraft Carrier-Cruiser Hybrid – The Soviet Union’s experimentation with fixed-wing aircraft carriers was anything but standard. As the second carrier-class built by...
The Soviet Union’s Moskva-Class Carrier-Cruisers: a Failed Experiment in Doing Everything at Once – The Soviet Navy was undoubtedly late to the aircraft carrier...
Given Russia’s stature as a near-peer competitor of the United States with interests in regions as far afield from Moscow as Latin America and...
Russia’s Battlecruisers – RIP? It has been more than 27 years since the last United States Navy battleship, the Iowa-class USS Missouri (BB-63), was decommissioned and stricken from the...
Russia Should Scrap Aircraft Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov – This month China’s Navy may not have made a great leap forward, but it took a...
The U.S. Navy is a superpower in its own right for a very simple reason: It has a fleet of powerful aircraft carriers that...
Ok, so we all know the age of the battleships is clearly over, as there are no such ships sailing anymore. However, Russia does...
Russia’s Oscar II-class submarine was built to kill U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and U.S. aircraft carrier groups. However, father time is undefeated when it...
What goes around comes around. It seems like it was just yesterday that Yours Truly wrote an article for 19FortyFive detailing the history of...
In another blow to Russia’s navy, missiles from Ukraine blasted a Russian rescue tug June 17, social media footage shows. It happened near Snake...