Afterwards, the Soviet Union realized that the practicality of using only nuclear warheads for the cruise missile, the Tsar 55, was insufficient and needed further improvement to enable it to play a role in conventional warfare. The improvement work was still carried out by the "Innovators" Desig...
Dr. Szaszdi worked as a Visiting Fellow on defense equipment and military technology at The Heritage Foundation. He is an independent open sources intelligence researcher and analyst, and a student of sea power, contemporary naval issues and naval history. In the 1990s he was invited several ...
after it had successfully launched a Bulava missile from an underwater position at the Kura test site in Kamtchatka. The Saint Andrew flag was hoisted on the submarine, on the 19th of December 2014. It serves in the 25th Division of Nuclear Submarines as part of Russia’s Pacific fleet, ...
The new missile, an upgraded version of the Kalibr cruise missile in service, will be mounted on large surface ships and nuclear submarines by 2027, TASS quoted a source in the military industry as saying. The Defense Ministry has financed the creation of the missile, which will have a large...
and nuclear powered space tugboats will be the only real opportunity for Russia to achieve its space renaissance strategy. (1) In the early 1960s, the first group of scientists in the Soviet space nuclear program, including Keldysh, Korolev, and Academician Kurchatov, proposed the idea of combi...
Yasen-class submarines, otherwise known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines designed to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines. The sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles), and can travel at several times the speed of sound, makin...
A Brave New Ireland: How dystopias can reflect the state of Ireland and the West It’s commonly believed that our future will become more digitalised, but it’s equally possible that nuclear war would allow a complete reset Wed Mar 05 2025 - 05:00 ...
After the program of test-launches from the Admiral Gorshkov is over, the missile will be test-fired from nuclear-powered submarines, it added. In February 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country was successfully developing the new weapon. Putin said then that the Tsirk...
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty forced both countries to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between approximately 300 and 3,400 miles. The US says specifically that Russia violated the INF when it developed and fielded the 9M729 missile system...
New satellite images obtained by CNN show Russia may be preparing another test of its nuclear-powered cruise missile, known as “Skyfall”– a controversial weapon that is designed to defeat US defense systems. The photos, which were captured on August 16 by the commercial satellite imaging ...