Russia celebrates Navy Day on July 26 annually, to honour the country’s naval fleet, guarding the vast coastline. Correspondent Oleg Kuleshov ventured inside the world’s largest submarine, an ...

Peter Kovalev/TASS The Russian fleet still has three of the six Akula subs originally built. The Akula (Shark) class nuclear submarine is a unique vessel. These submarines (of Project 941, or ‘Typhoon ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian Akula II-class submarine is something to behold and sometimes has American naval battle planners scratching their heads about the best way to counteract it. The third-generation ...

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 a strange turn of events, as the Soviet Union was in its final death agonies, the communist empire went on a weapons-building spree (this arms buildup, in response to the Reagan defense buildup, is ...