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 ...

A year ago, we were reporting about the old Russian missile cruiser Moskva (“Moscow”) firing missiles after a long period of inactivity. That was just an exercise, but one year later, things got ...