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The Varyag aircraft carrier had no propulsion and no crew, so it had to be dragged. Turkey refused passage through the Bosphorus for sixteen...
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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...
Ever since imperial times, Russia has sought to build and deploy a powerful navy—not merely as a projection of prestige but as a strategic...
During the Cold War, US and Soviet weapons designers competed to field the best platforms in the air, land, and sea. Beneath the surface...