Seventy times quieter than the first Los Angeles-class boats and ten times quieter than the improved ones” that’s how the ...

Bottomline: Russia’s Akula-class submarines, first deployed in the mid-1980s, remain a cornerstone of the country’s naval force. Designed to counter any submarine or surface warship, including ...

In November 2008, Russia faced another naval disaster when the K-152 Nerpa submarine suffered a fatal malfunction during sea ...

The Project 885 and Project 885M nuclear submarines were built with the intention to replace the earlier Oscar-class and Akula-class vessels, which had been built in the 1980s. Advertisement ...

NEW DELHI — The Indian navy on April 4 formally commissioned a Russian-built Akula-II-class submarine into its fleet. The submarine — originally the K-152 Nerpa and now renamed INS Chakra-II ...

Akula-Class Submarines. Russia; How Russia Could Make the Arctic Its Own Here’s What You Need to Remember: The legacy systems of the Cold War have left Russia well prepared for competition over ...