Russia’s Project 955A Borei-A class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine carries 15 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles — each armed with up to 10 multiple independently...
Russia’s 3M22 Zircon is the third hypersonic missile to enter service with the Russian Armed Forces, following the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal and the Avangard intercontinental...
Russia’s Project 23560 Lider-class destroyer was Moscow’s bid to rebuild a blue-water navy with one ship that did everything: a nuclear-powered surface combatant displacing...
The Russian K-329 Belgorod nuclear-powered special operations submarine carries 6 Poseidon nuclear torpedoes. Each Russian Poseidon nuclear torpedo can carry up to a 100-megaton...
The Soviet Ulyanovsk was to be an approximately 80,000-ton nuclear-powered supercarrier. The Soviet Ulyanovsk was planned to be powered by 4 KN-3 nuclear reactors....
Russia’s former Pacific Fleet commander Sergei Avakyants said the aircraft carrier “is already a bygone era. These are very expensive and ineffective naval weapons.”...
On August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after a 65-76A hydrogen-peroxide torpedo exploded in her starboard torpedo...
Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov—the massive Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser originally designed to hunt American aircraft carriers during the Cold War—is finally undergoing sea trials after a...
Russia’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov finally put to sea for trials in 2025—after spending more than 25 years laid up in port at...