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Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in an undersea arms race to develop stealthier and deadlier submarines....
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in an undersea arms race to develop stealthier and deadlier submarines....
The old Kirov-class carried 20 P-700 Granit missiles. The rebuilt Admiral Nakhimov carries up to 80 in new vertical launch cells, compatible with the...
The Varyag aircraft carrier had no propulsion and no crew, so it had to be dragged. Turkey refused passage through the Bosphorus for sixteen...
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...
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...
Workers at the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolayev laid down the Soviet Union's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on November 25, 1988. Ulyanovsk was to...
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...
British defense researcher Jack Buckby examines the chilling deep-sea legacy of the Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets. Sunken in the Norwegian Sea since 1989, the...
Key Points and Summary – The Sierra II-class (Project 945A Kondor) submarines are the Russian Navy’s last active titanium-hulled boats following the retirement of...