In the final decade of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a series of fourth-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) – which included a number of sub-classes or flights of the ...

Key Points - Russia's Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Vepr (K-157), a late Cold War-era design, remains a versatile and potent asset despite the broader Akula-class aging. -It was ...

In late 1984, when the first Akula submarine of the Soviet Navy put to sea, it immediately changed the way anti-submarine warfare would be conducted. With the Akula's arrival the American submarine ...

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Mikhail Budnichenko, director general at the Sevmash naval shipyard has said no other Navies in the world have a submarine like the Akula-class Dmitry Donskoy. "I think ...

Here’s what you need to remember: The results spoke for themselves: within the span of one attack submarine generation, the USSR went from a crippling acoustics disadvantage to being able to trade ...

One would think that the Cold War ended a long time ago, but ask the Pentagon officials who are very concerned about the two Russian nuclear-powered Akula-class attack submarines now patrolling the US ...

The Arkhangelsk and the Severstal subs, carrying ballistic missiles, have been withdrawn from the Navy’s structure and are staying in the dock of the Zvyozdochka Ship Repair Center in Severodvinsk ...