The structure gave Soviet engineers more flexibility than Western counterparts had in building a submarine class’ exterior hull. A distinctive bulb-like structure on the Akula’s top houses the ...

Russia's Akula-II Submarines: Silent Predators of the Deep Continue to Bolster Naval Might The Russian Navy might be under literal and figurative fire for its poor performance in Ukraine, but it ...

TASS/. The Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ [NATO reporting name: Akula] nuclear-powered underwater cruiser Gepard successfully struck a notional enemy’s submarine with an anti-submarine missile ...

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Mikhail Budnichenko, director general at the Sevmash naval shipyard has said no other Navies in the world have a submarine like the Akula-class Dmitry Donskoy.