Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to ...

On April 22 the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour. This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon ...

This undersea beast was eventually launched in 1980 and commissioned in the Soviet Red Fleet in 1982. These subs had an operational depth of 1,312 feet. Its crew of 160 operated a vessel equipped ...