Designed during the Cold War to compete with American submarines, the Alfa class featured a double-hull construction, minimal crew requirements, and impressive capabilities. -However, initial ...

high-performance vessel that demonstrated Russian submarine innovation. Built with a titanium hull and powered by a lead-bismuth-cooled reactor, the Alfa-class could reach speeds exceeding 40 ...

Soviet submarines were usually significantly faster than their American counterparts, could take more punishment thanks to their double-hulled ... Komsomolets’s inner hull was built entirely ...

MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. The fourth Project Yasen-M multipurpose nuclear submarine Krasnoyarsk has completed hydraulic tests of the pressure hull and its structures, the Sevmash Shipyard ...

On August 12, 2000, the world was mesmerised by a tragedy unfolding deep beneath the Barents Sea off Russia. The Russian Navy was carrying out exercises, and one of its submarines, the Kursk ...

TASS/. Another multipurpose nuclear-powered submarine Kazan has been launched at the Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk, a port city in Russia’s White Sea, a TASS correspondent reports from ...

A BLAZE at a submarine factory was caused by a sand-blaster explosion that ignited rubber tiles on a £1.3billion vessel. The huge fire spread through highly flammable tiles glued to the hull of ...

Norway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine. The Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.