The Soviet Foxtrot-class (Project 641) was one of the most successful and prolific diesel-electric attack submarine designs ...

The Soviets introduced this submarine class in 1967 to counter the thermonuclear Polaris missiles used by the Americans in their SSBNs. Although the K-219 was at the cutting edge of Soviet ...

The second mini-submarine is still coming back to the ... goes down there in 100 or 1,000 years, he will see our Russian flag." The Mir-2's crew included Michael McDowell, an Australian described ...

At 420 feet long, with a beam of 38 feet, the Russian submarine was a long and slender nuclear-armed predator. K-219 had a maximum dive depth of 1,029 feet and a crew of approximately 120.

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Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions.

In a video posted on Telegram in early February, two floating barriers are shown at the entrance to the natural harbor at Balaklava in Russian-held Crimea. Pro-Ukrainian activists claim the ...

The submarine – named after the July 1943 Battle of Kursk, the largest tank engagement in history – was one of eleven nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II) cruise missile submarines ...

There has also been an increasing presence of Russian submarines off of U.S. coasts and in the Mediterranean, according to officials. The Russian Navy commands one of the most diverse submarine ...

MOSCOW, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russia's new strategic nuclear submarine, the Imperator Alexander III, has successfully tested a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, the Russian defence ministry ...

A Cold War story has come to an end as the largest ever submarine is put out to pasture. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the Dmitry Donskoy, the first of the gigantic Typhoon ...

This is exactly what happened in October 1986, when a Soviet sub had an accident with its nuclear missiles. The submarine involved in the 1986 disaster was the K-219, a Navaga Class nuclear ...