Summary and Key Points: The Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, originally called Project 955 by the Soviet Navy in 1980, represent a significant advancement in Russian naval ...

Initial design work for the program began in the 1980s, although the fall of the Soviet Union would interrupt progress; construction on the first vessel would not begin until 1996. The program was ...

In August, Russia officially marked the start of construction on two new Borei-A-class submarines. The class is Russia's newest, most advanced class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine. The ...

Russian nuclear-powered ballistic-missile sub K-84 Ekaterinburg in Murmansk, May 23, 2018. Lev Fedoseyev\TASS via Getty Images Russia has announced plans to decommission the ballistic-missile ...

The Borei-class (Project 955) is Russia’s latest generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), designed ...

By the end of this year the seventh of ten Russian Borei-class SSBN (ballistic missile carrying) nuclear submarines enters service Three more are in various stages of completion and expected to enter ...

Key Points and Summary - Russia is modernizing its naval power, shifting from large, Soviet-era vessels to a smaller, stealthier, and more heavily armed submarine fleet centered on the new Borei-class ...

January 9, 2023: At the end of 2022 Russia put the Suvorov (K-553), its sixth Borei class SSBN (nuclear ballistic missile sub) into service. Suvorov is the third of the marginally improved Borei B ...

The Russian military on Sunday reported that it successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine. The Russian Defense ...

Meanwhile, multi-purpose ships and submarines of five-six Projects, basically, the carriers of long-range precision weapons, including hypersonic missiles, will lay the basis for the Fleet’s ...

Russia has announced plans to decommission the ballistic-missile submarine Ekaterinburg. That will be the beginning of the end for the subs that have long been the backbone of the Soviet and Russian ...