Project 941 Akula nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines 6 ballistic submarines built 1976-89: TK-208, 202, 12, 13, 47, 20, 210 (cancelled) service until 1998-2020. The Typhoon class was one of the most outstanding piece of kit ever created in the Soviet Union, a naval “superweapon” to place in the same basket as the Oscar class … Read more
92 planned, 86 completed under Project 1124 Al’batros Technically, the Grisha class ships were corvettes, not Frigates which were supposed to replace the mass-built Poti class of the 1960s, and they inherited many characteristics of the previous Petya and Mirka class ASW Frigates. They were built in parallel to the large Krivak class Frigates and … Read more
Project 68bis, 14 cruisers (1951): Sverdlov, Zhdanov, Admiral Ushakov, Aleksandr Suvorov, Admiral Senyavin, Dmitry Pozharsky, Kronstadt*, Tallinn*, Varyag*, Ordzhonikidze (KRI Irian 1963), Aleksandr Nevsky, Admiral Lazarev, Shcherbakov*, Dzerzhinsky, Admiral Nakhimov*, Mikhail Kutuzov, Admiral Kornilov*, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsia, Murmansk*, Arkhangelsk*, Vladivostok* *cancelled, BU on slip This massive class wanted by Stalin was to answer the armada of … Read more
Project 667BDRM Delfin nuclear missile attack submarines 7 ballistic submarines (Delta IV) built 1981-90: K-51, 84, 64, 114, 117, 18, 407 The Delta IV class SSBNs (in Russian Raketnyy Podvodnyy Strategicheskogo Nazhacheniya or RPKSN) were the last of the Delta serie, and last SSBNs (with the Typhoons) built in the Soviet Union. The next Russian … Read more
Project 670/670M Skat: 17 SSGNs Nuclear powered Missile Attack submarines (Charlie I/II). The Project 670 Skat submarine (NATO Charlie class) were nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) of the Soviet Navy and later Russian Navy, now all decommissioned. They were designed by the Lazurit Central Design Bureau of Gorky in order to replace the previous 1950s … Read more
Project 641B Som (NATO “TANGO”) conventional attack submarines 18 submarines (1972-2016), B-series (random numbers). The B-443 class or Project 541B Som (“Catfish”), NATO “Tango” were a serie of diesel-electric attack submarines built in Krasnoye Sormovo, Gorkiy, Soviet Union, to replace the Foxtrot-class submarines of the Black Sea Northern Fleets. The first was completed in 1972, … Read more
13 destroyers (15 planned) 1980-today: Udaloy, Vice-Admiral Kulakov, Marshal Vasilyevsky, Admiral Zakharov, Admiral Spiridonov, Admiral Tributs, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Admiral Levchenko, Admiral Vinogradov, Admiral Kharlamov, Admiral Panteleyev, Admiral Chabanenko (Udaloy II) The Udaloy class missile destroyers (Project 1155 Fregat) were designed as substitutes for the Kotlin class, and despite cruiser dimensions and construction in the same … Read more
Project 667BDR ‘Kalmar’ nuclear missile attack submarines 14 ballistic submarines (Delta III). The Delta III class SSBNs of the ex-Soviet, now Russian Navy are originally known as the Project 667BDR Kaľmar (Squid): Fourteen large ballistic missile submarine, double hulled design, within low magnetic steel outer hull and designed around their sixteen new RSM-50 R-29R “Vysota” … Read more
Project 651: 16 SSG Conventional Missile Attack submarines (NATO Juliett). Project 651 submarines (NATO Juliett) were conventionally powered cruise-missile launching submarines developed in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s as a way to combat US Navy carrier battle groups (CBG). It was planned to mass-produce them, and 35 were ordered initially, until the serie … Read more
Project 667B nuclear missile attack submarines Project 667BD Murena-M: 4 ballistic submarines (Delta II). With just four boats, the 667BD Murena-M (NATO Delta II) were an evolution of the Delta I nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. They were essentially correcting shortcomings with the Delta I design, and while remaining largely the same overall, a new section … Read more
