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The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
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The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
The Akula-class attack submarine was the Soviet Union’s steel answer to the Los Angeles class. About 15 boats were finished before the money ran...
Forty-seven days after the Soviet Union dissolved, USS Baton Rouge and the Russian attack submarine K-276 collided near the Northern Fleet’s main bases. Neither...
K-222 reached 44.7 knots submerged, roughly 51 miles per hour, from two reactors and 80,000 shaft horsepower. No crewed submarine has publicly surpassed it....
The Soviet Alfa-class submarine was built from exotic titanium and could hit 40 knots. There was just one problem: they were really loud in...
Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
I have been studying Russian submarines since I was just a little kid, and I even toured a diesel Foxtrot-class boat around twenty years...
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...
The Soviet K-222 (Papa-class) remains a legendary anomaly in naval history: the fastest nuclear submarine ever built. While modern 2026 submarine doctrine prioritizes near-silent...
Synopsis: While Russia’s surface fleet often lags behind, its submarine force has a history of “cutting-edge” innovation, exemplified by the Soviet Union’s use of...