The Soviet K-27 submarine, launched in 1958, was an ambitious but flawed experiment with lead-bismuth-cooled reactors. On May ...

In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, ...

Two of Russia's most advanced nuclear submarines, the Borei-class Imperator Aleksandr III and Yasen-M class Krasnoyarsk, ...

"I told the Russians on the radio that we should pull out our nets. But a huge Russian warship headed towards us at full ...

Shootings or not, the fishermen wanted to secure their catch and confronted the Northern Fleet's large destroyer Admiral ...

A Russian warship menaced a Norwegian fishing vessel in the Arctic Ocean earlier this month, firing a warning shot that ...

A Russian warship taking part in naval drills fired a warning shot at a Norwegian fishing boat in the Arctic Ocean earlier ...

The fire has been extinguished and the submarine is now at the Russian Northern Fleet's base in Severomorsk on the Barents Sea, Interfax quoted the ministry as saying. The statement as cited by ...

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China’s naval buildup now includes a new class of attack submarine that employs both conventional and nuclear propulsion, ...

The Navy's planned $130 billion investment in a new class of submarines, which serve as a key part of the nation's nuclear ...

Satellite imagery showed that China's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a ... its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, which is crucial to international trade.