Warship
Fast craft between the wars
The British hard-chined Coastal Motor Boats of World War I were very fast but required constant attention to trim in order to get the best performance. 1919 saw them in use in a little-known campaign on the Caspian, during the intervention by the Western powers in Russia. S12 and S13 were part of the first batch of German motor torpedo…
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Nanuchka class
Nanuchka I Nanuchka II Nanuchka III Nanuchka IV During the 1970s, the Soviet Union constructed a new corvette group of compact warship known as the Nanuchka-class (also Project 1234 “Ovod”). Total strength eventually numbered forty-seven vessels completed with a single example cancelled. Five were ultimately lost under various circumstances and…
RUSSIA’S YURI DOLGORUKY (K-535)
Yury Dolgorukiy on its way to the Russian Northern Fleet, October 15, 2015. Yury Dolgorukiy, the lead vessel of the Borei-class submarine Yury Dolgorukiy during sea trials Named after the founder of Moscow, Yuri Dolgorukiy, K-535 is the first of ten planned Borei-class ballistic missile submarines. The vessel was first…
Ju Lang-2 submarine-launched ballistic missiles
The PLAN has begun replacing its small and aging fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, i. e., five Han-class nuclear-powered attack boats (SSN) and one Xia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile-carrying submarine (SSBN). The first in a new class of SSNs, the Type- 093 Shang-class was launched in 2002 and commissioned in 2006; one…
Midway Fleet Carriers
Sailors form a message of farewell on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) as the ship heads out to sea after leaving U.S. Naval Station, Yokosuka, Japan, for the last time. Early wartime combat experience had convinced the US navy that a new, larger fleet carrier…
Soviet Naval Infantry and Air Cushion vehicles
Soviet Naval Infantrymen in 1985. Cold War Following the Russian revolution in 1917 and during the ensuing Civil War of 1917 to 1922 the first Soviet naval infantry units were formed. This Force was disbanded at the conclusion of the Civil War and not re-established until 1939. The peak force…
Virginia-class cruisers
The need for more nuclear-powered surface warships to provide antiaircraft and ASW defense was clear, as only two of the frigates (DLGN), now known as cruiser (CGN), possessed this propulsion system. In order to take full advantage of the high endurance offered by the nuclear Enterprise, the United States embarked…