When originally developed, the Shchuka-class submarines represented the first major Soviet naval program for ... two entering service after World War II ended – while 35 were reported lost ...

The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...

After serving in World War II and as a ... at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut, while occasionally carrying out surveillance missions against the Soviet Union and visiting foreign ...

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 ...

Today, a good three years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, few within NATO or the German government question the strategic value of submarines. NATO’s defense plans now envision the ...

The goal was to detect Soviet submarines using the classified sound surveillance system, or SOSUS, technology once kept in a large building behind a fence and a guard shack. “I do remember the ...

The accident occurred as the Russian boat crossed in front of the American. If the U.S. submarine had been five seconds slower, the Russian sub would have been struck right on its missile bay ...

TASS/. Legendary shipbuilder Vasily Vorontsov, a World War II veteran, who in the post-war years was among those who worked on the Soviet Union’s first nuclear-powered submarine, has turned 100.

This series started as a film about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis from the perspective of four Soviet submarine crews armed with nuclear torpedoes. Some of these submariners were still alive and ...

I toured the Becuna, a WWII warship and the only submarine of its kind left in the world. Take a look inside.