During the 1950s, the Soviets had conducted a study on light aircraft carriers – after already noting that half of the Soviet’s large warships had been sunk in World War II by enemy aircraft. However, ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy adopted a different approach to naval power projection compared to the U.S. Navy, which centered its strategy around aircraft carriers.

The development of ever-more-capable drones, plus the perceived vulnerability of large aircraft carriers to the latest anti-ship missiles, has convinced at least one naval observer that hybrid drone ...

The Soviet navy was never known for its aircraft carriers, and the few it operated weren't meant for the same kind of operations as their US counterparts. While those carriers didn't do much for the ...

Years ago we had the unique chance to visit the Russian guided missile cruiser “Moskva”. And here are all the photographs we took during that unprecedented tour. As explained in detail in a previous ...

The real causes of the damage are not clear, as the Russians claim that a fire broke out on board and the Ukrainians claim the Moskva was hit by anti-ship missiles. The flagship of the Russian Navy’s ...

Russia's Ministry of Defense posted a video Saturday purporting to show dozens of surviving crew members from the missile cruiser Moskva, Russia's Black Sea flagship that sank Thursday under contested ...

A picture of the Russian Navy’s Moskva warship burning before it sank in the Black Sea is genuine, an expert has said. The first verified images of the damaged cruiser, which show her listing to port ...

New photos and a short video clip emerged early Monday on social media showing Russia’s guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva, badly damaged and on fire in the hours before the ship sank in the Black Sea ...