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Russia’s Akula II-Class Nuclear Submarines Can Challenge the U.S. Navy

The Russian Akula II-class submarine is something to behold and sometimes has American naval battle planners scratching their heads about the best way to counteract it. The third-generation ...
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Russia’s Akula II-Class Submarine Has Just 1 Mission

Key Points - Russia's Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Vepr (K-157), a late Cold War-era design, remains a versatile and potent asset despite the broader Akula-class aging. -It was ...
The National Interest

Akula-Class: The Game-Changer Russian Submarine the Navy Hates

In the final decade of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a series of fourth-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) – which included a number of sub-classes or flights of the ...
TASS

Russian Navy Akula-class sub hits enemy submarine in Arctic drills

MOSCOW, June 17. /TASS/. The Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ [NATO reporting name: Akula] nuclear-powered underwater cruiser Gepard successfully struck a notional enemy’s submarine with an anti-submarine ...
The National Interest

Akula: The Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine with Just One Mission

In a strange turn of events, as the Soviet Union was in its final death agonies, the communist empire went on a weapons-building spree (this arms buildup, in response to the Reagan defense buildup, is ...