In the early '70s, the Soviet Union tried a bold experiment: using "peaceful nuclear explosions," or PNEs, to redirect ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled in one of Moscow’s busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian ...

Russia has blasted Serbia for exporting arms to Ukraine, saying it’s a stab in the back by its traditional Slavic Balkan ally ...

A U.S. Department of Agriculture delegation visits the Soviet Union in 1959 to observe farming practices, mechanization, and ...

Known as the Akula in the Soviet Union, the sub was a child of the Cold War and its policy of mutual assured destruction. Its mission was to lurk beneath the sea and fire nuclear missiles at the ...

For the second time since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 ... and these were the enormous 24,000-ton Typhoon/Akula class SSBNs. These proved too expensive to build and operate. Six of them entered ...

Designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by the Sevmash shipyard, they have been established as replacements for the aging Oscar- and Akula-class cruise ... following the ...

The lease for India's Russian Akula-class SSN ended in 2021 ... a technology originally developed by the Soviet Union for its submarines. Although this was a major step forward, India's long ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union and Beyond Russia’s modern relations with China and ... In the 2010s, India would even lease two Russian Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarines to fully outfit its one and soon ...