The history of Russian predreadnoughts can be described as an "optimistic tragedy" by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. Not only because the crews of these ships took an active part in...

Could heavy cruisers succeed against a convoy system protected by a superior enemy fleet?...

The United States is building multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Virginia type of the new Block V series. The first ships of this modification will enter service in a few years and should improve the strike...

The phrases "Austrian fleet" and "Hungarian fleet" create cognitive dissonance: neither country has access to the sea. But the "Austro-Hungarian fleet" existed: the dual...

There are successful and unsuccessful ships. There are those with interesting or boring fates. And there are epochal ones. Those that mark the appearance of a new class of ships at sea. The Chilean cruiser Esmeralda...

The US Navy's new Constellation-class frigate is in serious trouble and may sink before it's launched....

The Shahid Soleimani-class missile corvettes have a somewhat non-standard design for warships - a catamaran, although their analogues are in the navies of the USA, China, North Korea and Taiwan....

The reason for the fatal increase in the list of the Oslyabya was the holes in the unarmored side, through which the forward sections of the living deck received free communication with the sea...

During World War I, the cruiser Karlsruhe (SMS Karlsruhe) captured or sank enemy ships with a total displacement of 76609 gross tons and became the second most successful raider, behind...

In 2023, the second "advanced floating base" "Shahid Mahdavi" entered service with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, and in 2024, it crossed the equator and the Southern Tropic for the first time in the history of the IRGC....

Submarines, aviation... Is there still room for heavy cruisers in the fight against enemy shipping?...

Russia is a country of rivers. The Volga, Don, Dnieper and many dozens of navigable rivers make the territory of our country accessible to river transport. And if so, then to protect such a territory, a river...

Its guns fired their first salvo at 4:15 a.m. on June 22, 1941. The last salvos were fired in May 1945. If you add up all the miles it left behind during the war, you get the circumference of...

A shipbuilding school is something that is developed over a long period of time and carefully. You can't get it from scratch for any amount of money. Especially in a field like submarine design......

In September 1939, the 203mm main guns of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper tore apart the armor of the target ship, the old battleship Hessen. The execution was closely watched by members of...

On May 20, 2023, the ships of the 86th flotilla of the Iranian Navy, consisting of the floating base "Makran" and the frigate "Dena", returned to the port of Bandar Abbas after a 236-day round-the-world voyage, the first in the history of the Iranian...

The most controversial weapon of the Russian Navy...

The Russian public learned about the fate of the Oslyabya from a telegram published in the press by the Commander-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Armed Forces of the Far East, N. P. Linevich....

Protecting the “shadow fleet” of tankers with Russian oil – what could this lead to and how to protect Russia’s interests in the Baltic....

A closer look at "Shahid Bagheri" casts doubt on whether he is what he is made out to be....

Let us compare the theses of Ya. Podgorny with the results of clashes between German raiders and the opposing British forces in the First World War....

During the First World War, some fleets actively used the so-called dazzling camouflage. Ships and vessels were protected from enemy attacks by special coloring in the form of contrasting stripes and spots....

Suddenly a white squall hit from the south-east. No signs of it were noticed on board, even the barometer needle remained motionless. Everything happened so quickly that the crew did not have time to react. After...

On February 6, 2025, a ceremonial commissioning of the C-110-4 aircraft carrier "Shahid Bahman Bagheri", named after...