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On March 20, 1993, the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Grayling was shadowing the Russian Delta IV ballistic missile submarine Novomoskovsk in the Barents Sea...
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On March 20, 1993, the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Grayling was shadowing the Russian Delta IV ballistic missile submarine Novomoskovsk in the Barents Sea...
Built with a titanium pressure hull at Sevmash, the Soviet K-278 Komsomolets reached 1,020 meters, a depth no NATO submarine could follow and still...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
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...