Tirpitz was the heaviest warship ever built by a European navy during World War II. It was only 2,000 tonnes heavier than its sister battleship Bismarck. The colossal ship became a real problem for ...

In 1934, alarmed by Japan's naval expansion and its potential threat to Vladivostok, Soviet authorities fortified Russky ...

Battleship Cove is home to the largest naval warship collection in the world and features ships that date as far back as World War II. The Hiddensee is a Soviet missile corvette built in 1984 during a ...

Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions.

In the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October," a Soviet Navy captain who is disenchanted with the Soviet system defects to the United States with a new, secret submarine propulsion system.

The Soviet Fleet contains only three battleships, each 26 years old. Besides plans for more submarines, cruisers, destroyers, Moscow announced that two new dreadnaughts would be built, each of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

Kosmos 482 was launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1972 as part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction.

Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after launching Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was ...