The Russian Ministry of Defence has confirmed that an expedition has been launched to attempt to locate a Soviet Navy submarine that was lost off the northern coast of Japan in the closing weeks of World War II. Russian Navy hydrographic ships will begin combing the waters of La Perouse Strait...
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VESSEL REFIT | Evgeny Gorigledzhan – Rescue tug converted into oceanographic research ship for Russian Defence Ministry
Russia’s Yantar Shipyard has completed conversion of a former rescue and salvage tug into an oceanographic research vessel to be used by the country’s Ministry of Def ..
BOOK REVIEW | The Hunt for The Storozhevoy: The 1975 Soviet Navy Mutiny in the Baltic
While it happened for very different reasons than the current invasion of Ukraine nearly half a century later, the Soviet suppression of the mutiny aboard the multi-purpo ..
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OPINION | Cold War offers clues about China’s plans for the Indian Ocean
A recent study published by the US Army War College looks at how geography constrained the Soviet military presence in the Indian Ocean and the lessons that can be drawn ..
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Former CNO Thomas Hayward Remembered For Professionalizing Navy, Taking on Soviets
Former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Thomas Hayward in 1980 during an interview with All Hands magazine. US Navy Photo
Adm. Thomas B. Hayward, who served as the 21st chief of naval operations from 1978 to 1982, died March 3. He was 97.
The career aviator rose to head a growing Navy during the height of Cold War competition with the Soviet Union and worked to professionalize a service still weighed down with problems like racism and drug use after the Vietnam War.
In a statement, Chief of Naval...
VESSEL REVIEW | Aki – JMSDF SWATH ship to perform long-range monitoring of submarines
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) commissioned a new ocean surveillance ship into service earlier this year. Built by Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding and utilisin ..
Russian minesweeper Pyotr Ilyichev hits the water
Sredne-Nesvky Shipbuilding Plant has launched the future Russian Navy minesweeper Pyotr Ilyichev at its facilities near Saint Petersburg. The FRP-hulled vessel is the six ..
Russian design firm launches submersible patrol ship series
Russian naval architects Rubin Central Design Bureau has confirmed that development is underway on a new type of warship that will combine key features of submarines and ..
Royal Navy ship surveys two WWII wrecks in Baltic Sea
The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo has investigated the wrecks of two ships that sank with a total of over 16,000 lives lost during World War II. Echo has been on ..
OPINION | Does Soviet naval strategy provide a template for China’s maritime ambitions?
In 1976, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgyevich Gorshkov published his exposition of Soviet maritime strategy under the title The sea power of the ..