Among the many projects (both remaining in theory and embodied in metal) of Soviet ships, stand out, politely say, unusual, created according to the principle "we wanted the best, but it turned out as always" ...

Misunderstood or forgotten lessons of the past must be analyzed and understood for the sake of our future ...

The point of view on what needed to be done to increase the combat effectiveness of aircraft-carrying cruisers of Project 1143 and their aircraft ...

ARAPAHO, SCADS and other attempts to deploy combat aircraft on converted commercial ships in the 80s, including Soviet ones. And also a "skyhook" for "Harrier" ...

The American submariners again received Harpoon anti-ship missiles at their disposal. This is the first time in 25 years ...

The application model, corresponding to real tasks and conditions, allows, on the basis of the 677 Lada project, to obtain a massive and inexpensive multipurpose nuclear submarine ...

The development of the Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system continues. In the future, it will be able to become interspecific - the development of new modifications has begun, incl. ship ....

Ukraine is going to develop its naval forces, for which it orders ships and boats of various types abroad. Whether it will be possible to fulfill all these plans and change the situation in the Navy is a big question ...

A very controversial battle between cruisers and destroyers ...

In October last year, the lead icebreaker of the new project 22220 was commissioned. In the coming years, four vessels of the same type will follow the Arktika. Their appearance will have a positive impact on ...

Everyone imagines himself to be a strategist, seeing the battle from the side. But what comes out in the end ... In the late XNUMXth - early XNUMXth centuries, a museum of specimens came out. Because there was no concept, but there were throwing from the British school to ...

Are accidents involving submarines a common occurrence or not? ...

The unlearned lessons of Project 705 are still hanging around the neck of our submarine fleet as a "heavy weight" ...

On January 30, the small missile ship "Graivoron" entered the Black Sea Fleet. This is already the tenth representative of the Buyan-M project 21631 - and far from the last ....

The lack of necessary research and development work and critical shortcomings in testing lead to the fact that even the "newest" Russian electric torpedoes lag behind modern foreign ones by 15-50 years ...

On the night of April 6-7, the storm in the Philippine Sea intensified to the highest category. In one place, 11 aircraft carrier groups converged at a time, under the cover of 8 battleships and battle cruisers ...

The reasons and consequences of the appearance of anti-aircraft missile systems in the armament of submarines ...

The US Navy launches the development of a new destroyer with the working designation DDG-X. Currently, the search for the optimal appearance of such a ship is underway, and some details are becoming known ...

At the end of December, the Navy received a new large landing ship, "Pyotr Morgunov". At the end of January, he arrived at his duty station and is now preparing to perform the assigned tasks ...

The recently presented project of a promising Russian aircraft carrier shows well the "trend" for reducing the size of a promising ship. Obviously, the country will not receive its own "supercarrier" ...