Russia’s Yasen-class and America’s Virginia-class submarines are among the most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines in service today. Both are designed to hunt enemy submarines, strike surface ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian Yasen-class submarine K-560 Severodvinsk.Russian Ministry of Defense Russia is considering building more of its ...

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Key point: The Yasen-M line is a modernization package that is meant to account for the sixteen-year gap between the first commissioned Yasen vessel– Severodvinsk– and the upcoming Kazan submarine.

Russia's navy has been largely untouched by the war in Ukraine, despite high-profile losses, and Moscow plans to continue investing in it, including by building more of the Yasen-class submarines that ...

Russia's Yasen-class submarines have long been seen as a tough challenge for the US Navy. They are quiet and able to carry torpedoes as well as Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles. A Russian shipbuilding ...

June 14, 2021: On May 7th Russia finally put its second Yasen class SSN into service. There were delays, which has become typical of the Yasen class. The first of these entered service in 2013, twenty ...

Yasen-M: Russia’s underwater missile truck that is also a sub – Russia is using long-range precision strikes from submarines to destroy Ukrainian coastal bases and hit civilian targets. Don’t be ...

March 31 (UPI) --Russia's second Yasen-class submarine was launched at the Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk, the country's state-controlled media reported. Kazan, a nuclear-powered vessel, departed ...

The third Yasen did not begin construction until 2013 and was launched in 2019. That was two years less than Kazan and the fourth Yasen was expected to take the same amount of time and launch during ...

Since Russia's first Yasen-class nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, Severodvinsk, entered service in late 2013, two decades after its construction began, other subs of the class have followed ...