K410 Smolensk at speed Kursk and the Oscar class On August 12 2000 one of Russia’s most largest and most formidable submarines suffers a catastrophic double explosion sinking the submarine and taking the lives of 118 souls. The Story of Kursk today...
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...
Designed in the late 1950’s by Abram Samuilovich Kassatsier the Project 651 NATO codenamed Juliett class boats were the Soviet Union’s first real purpose built conventionally powered cruise missile submarines; they would also be the last. These boats were...
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