The Russian navy, even in the 1980s when it aspired to be an ocean-going fleet, is gradually eroding ... Although the capabilities of Russian surface units are limited, submarines still pose ...
The Ukrainian navy—ironically, a fleet without any large ships—got there first, with an unmanned boat that launches explosive ...
The mighty Soviet Navy, the second largest in the world, fell apart after 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved and the Russian Federation could not afford to provide crews and fuel for its hundreds of ...
After three years of fighting, the Russian Navy’s capabilities, particularly in the Black Sea, have been seriously degraded and constrained as a result of Ukrainian military and intelligence ...
Once the shooting started in Ukraine, however, the Russian Navy was, much like the army, exposed as a paper tiger; its Black Sea Fleet has lost ... for an unmanned surface vessel.
A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base ...
The broadcast, according to military officials, came from a Russian spy ship ... Healey said a Royal Navy submarine was authorized to surface close to the Yantar "strictly as a deterrent measure ...
While attribution has often proved tricky and some of the incidents could have been accidents, some European officials have pointed fingers at Russia's so-called shadow fleet. This refers to ...
The Black Sea has become the Navy’s laboratory for rehearsing and operationalizing the best ways to tie unmanned, robotic ...