Fidel Castro’s Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito ...
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union placed heavy reliance on its submarine fleet to negate America’s advantage in naval forces. The U.S. Navy was not only tasked to help protect the flow of ...
What You Need to Know: The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian history. -The nuclear-powered Oscar II-class submarine ...
Key Points - The Soviet Foxtrot-class (Project 641) was one of the most successful and prolific diesel-electric attack submarine designs of the Cold War, with 74 boats built between 1957 and 1983.