Project 66 cruiser. Artillery and fire control system
On the armament of the latest design for the USSR's heavy artillery ship....
White ship, red crosses. Hospital ships in the Falklands War. Argentina.
In terms of medical support, the Argentine armed forces in the Falklands were in a more favourable position than their opponents, at least in the first phase of the fighting...
Rheinmetall: If you can't do it yourself, we'll sell it to you.
German defense giant Rheinmetall enters the frigate market… in the US!
INS Dragon: How Israel's Nuclear Ambiguity Works
Israel has acquired a submarine whose nuclear role its military says nothing about – and it is this silence, not the warheads, that turns out to be its main weapon....
Operational and tactical assignment for the Project 66 cruiser and its first adjustments
Let's take a look at the technical specifications for the latest design for a heavy artillery ship from the USSR...
How to effectively conquer the sea
China is beefing up its naval firepower by equipping older destroyers with YJ-20 hypersonic missiles.
A claim to the rulership of the Black Sea?
Türkiye launches Karadeniz, the sixth Istanbul-class frigate....
White ship, red crosses. Hospital ships in the Falklands War.
During the 1982 Anglo-Argentine War for control of the Falkland Islands, both warring parties used the Falkland Islands to evacuate, provide medical care, treat and repatriate the wounded and sick...
Warships. Destroyers. Knights of Narvik
Type 1936 destroyers. The next step in German shipbuilding toward creating an effective destroyer....
New American frigates symbolize the restoration of the US Navy
US shipbuilding programs are improving, and the new FF(X) frigates for the US Navy are a clear sign of this improvement....
On the projects of Soviet heavy cruisers with 220-mm guns
About the forerunners of the "medium" cruisers of Project 66...
Three cables to universal disgrace
The US Navy is delaying testing of a hypersonic missile on the USS Zumwalt until 2027 as costs have reached $2 billion.
How to Relearn How to Defend a Harbor
For the first time, the U.S. Coast Guard is openly seeking not a way to detect an underwater drone, but a way to destroy one—and the request exposes a key problem in harbor defense: detecting underwater threats...
Project 66 cruisers. About the first post-war shipbuilding program for 1946-1955.
About how the USSR planned to build a post-war fleet...
In defense of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation
Criticism of our Black Sea Fleet is common online these days, but how justified is it?
A Thousand Miles to the Target: Why the Aircraft Carrier No Longer Has Enough Range
The US Navy is demanding a combat radius of 1,000 nautical miles for its new carrier-based drone—a figure that conceals an unpleasant admission: the carrier's air wing can no longer reach its targets, not...
How far will the Russian fleet go?
Construction of Project 23130 medium-sized sea tankers continues. The third serial hull of this type, the "Alexey Shein," was recently launched.
The Fujian Aircraft Carrier: Its Path to Perfection
The Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian could become the world's first aircraft carrier with an operational anti-torpedo system.
The influence of distance on the firing efficiency of Russian and Japanese armored ships, using the Battle of Shantung as an example
Let's look at how accuracy increased with decreasing distances in the second phase of the battle...
First things first... machine guns!
The North Korean warship Kang Kon delighted Kim Jong-un with a full broadside of machine guns...
On methods for modeling unrealistic naval battles using the armored cruisers Bayan and Izumo as examples
On how situations arise when, in a confrontation between David and Goliath, all the odds are on David's side...
True Aryans of Nordic stock
The Type 1934A destroyers were a serious effort to correct errors, yielding almost decent results....
On the hypothetical duel between the armored cruisers Nissin and Bayan
Let's consider the decisive battle between the Nissin and the Bayan during the Russo-Japanese War...
On the hypothetical duel between the armored cruisers Izumo and Bayan
How could the decisive battle between Izumo and Bayan have gone if it had taken place?