The Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser was conceived as a nuclear-powered, prestige flagship built to stalk U.S. carrier groups and survive brutal surface combat. -Bristling with Granit “carrier-killer” ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crisis over Crimea is more than a dispute over whether the strategic Black Sea peninsula should be considered Russian or Ukrainian. At its root is a deeper issue: Russia’s ...

It probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that speed is one of the key factors in designing fighter, attack, and interceptor aircraft. These military machines are used to fly out and ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...