Improved Kilo Class News Today

The legacy of Soviet submarine innovation continues today with Russia's ambitious new submarine projects, amidst rising naval tensions with NATO.

Ukraine used ten UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy a Russian Kilo Submarine and a landing ship in a Sevastopol dry dock. They were on land in dry

Ukraine damaged or destroyed two Russian warships harbored in occupied Sevastopol on Wednesday, according to sources on both sides of the conflict, just one week after it was revealed that SpaceX foun...

With the French donation of the SCALP cruise missile, Ukraine receives another long-range weapon to strike targets far beyond the front.

The small but potentially significant push deeper south in Zaporizhzhia Oblast puts Ukrainian troops a step closer to Crimea.

Russias submarine fleet is a formidable underwater force that has received significant investment in recent years.

With Russia’s land invasion bogged down, it may turn to the sea as another way of hurting Ukraine. But that reflects Russian weakness more than strength.

This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2022. U.S. allies and competitors both continued to expand their naval forces with the world’s largest navies investing in new hulls and capabilities. China’s Naval Development The People’s Liberation Army Navy grew its fleet with an emphasis on aircraft carriers, surface […]

Russia has “almost certainly” moved its Black Sea Fleet Kilo-class submarines from Sevastopol, Crimea, to the Novorossiysk port in Krasnodar Krai, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced in a Tuesday intelligence report. Russia could have up to four of the diesel-electric attack boats in the Black Sea. All of the Kilo-class are capable of […]

Russia fears that Ukraine, having successfully turned the tide of the war, will now push into Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula Russia annexed in 2014.