B800 Kaluga decks awash Russia’s iconic conventional submarine known as the Project 877 and Project 636 Kilo class were developed mainly to replace the preceding Foxtrot and Tango classes. Known the world over as a cheap, cheerful yet capable submarine the kilo is...
Russia’s sole “aircraft carrier” the Admiral Kuznetsov, eventually named for the former Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, has over the years been the butt of many jokes and for good reason in many cases. Admiral of the Fleet...
Hotel class With the successful operation of the worlds first dedicated ballistic missile submarine B67 known as project AV611 (NATO Zulu IV) in 1955 the race was on between the USA and the Soviet Union to do more.The United States started to deploy the Regulus...
Project 641B Som the Catfish With the extraordinarily successful 1950’s designed second generation conventional submarines of the project 641 Foxtrot class still in full production the hunt for a successor submarine began. Derived from the basic layout of the original...
In the beginning Designed in the 1970’s along side the more numerous Project 667B BD BDR BDRM NATO Delta I II III IV boats, the Project 941 Akula NATO codenamed Typhoon was a radical departure from anything that we have seen before or since. In nearly every design...
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