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...
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...
Project 1155 Fregat known in the west as the Udaloy class These ships are the work horse of the surface fleet for the Russian navy, despite their age they have proved reliable and quite versatile they are often deployed on the longer-range operations such as the Gulf...
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...
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