Here’s What You Need to Remember: The large Akula, which displaced nearly thirteen thousand tons submerged, featured a steel double hull typical to Soviet submarines, allowing the vessel to take ...

Summary and Key Points: Submarine service is notoriously dangerous, particularly on Russian submersibles. On November 8, 2008, the Akula-II class nuclear attack submarine K-152 Nerpa experienced a ...

The Northern Fleet’s Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ (NATO reporting name: Akula) nuclear-powered ... The nuclear-powered submarine Leopard is part of the Northern Fleet’s 24th submarine division.

Today two Akula-class submarines, the Arkhangelsk and the Severstal, both of which carried ballistic missiles, have been withdrawn from the Navy’s structure and are staying in the dock of the ...

A U.S. submarine, the USS Tampa Bay, vanishes while shadowing a Russian Akula-class submarine in the Arctic. Rear Admiral John Fisk sends a Virginia-class submarine, the USS Arkansas, under the ...

The Arkhangelsk has been named after the capital of the territory called Pomorye in the north of the European part of Russia. The Project 885 and Project 885M nuclear submarines were built with the ...