The Akula is an iconic submarine ... those same intelligence services were in agreement with the claimthat the Soviet Union would persist until at least 2015. Within a few short years of making ...

Summary: The Akula-class submarines, introduced by the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, remain a vital part of Russia's naval capabilities nearly three decades later. Designed to compete with ...

The Akula (‘Shark’) II is a multi-mission ... the West), as Western intelligence agencies had not expected the Soviet Union to produce such a boat for another 10 years,” according to ...

It began shortly after World War II and officially ended with the fall of the Soviet Union on December 26 ... brought to submarine warfare. The Akula Class was a fourth generation nuclear-powered ...