April 4, 2024: Russia recently abandoned its effort to continue building Lada class submarines. Ladas were originally seen as a successor to the Kilo class but were not as capable as expected. The ...

And that also means that we do not know for sure how many fully operational ballistic missile submarines Russia has. As originally built, the Typhoon Class were armed with twenty R-39 ‘Rif ...

The Borei-class submarines were designed to accommodate “the new submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) Bulava in place of the abandoned ... the iconic Russian Typhoon-class.

The Borei-Class was designed with a hydrodynamically efficient hull for the sake of reducing broadband noise. The hull design is compact and is significantly smaller than the Typhoon-class SSBN.

The Borei-class submarines were designed to accommodate “the new submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) Bulava in place of the abandoned ... the iconic Russian Typhoon-class.