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I honestly tried to put it into "Fictional warships in movies" thread, but it just refused to work with images at all. If moderators would be able to move this thread into proper place, I would be grateful. So the 1939 Soviet war movie "Moryaki" (rus. Sailors). The movie itself is rather...

The harbour/port is dredged/demined and Giulio Cesare/Novorossiysk is not sunk. What do the Soviet union do with her?

Hello World, Do any of you know what I could do to find the coordinates of the final resting place of the KM (KM-1) Ekranoplan? This is the Ekranoplan that sank in the Caspian in 1980 and was not (as far as we know) recovered. This is not the LUN missile carrier that is currently beached in...

Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...

Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...

Michel Van: "One Moment Luminal-A ? was Glusko also in Alumizine propellant ?!" Right, luminal-a is soviet analog of american alumizine. Some theoretical works was conducted at OKB-456 (chief designer V. P. Glushko; today NPO "Energomash"), then conducted some static fire tests. OKB-456 has...

There is a discussion on soviet carriers but it deals mostly with western reactions. I'm very interested in what possible Mach 2 carrier fighters the soviets would have built, the missing link between the MiG-19K Tigr planned for Pr. 85 carriers, and the MiG-23K and others such as Su-24K, T-10...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22seaplane+striking+force%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok Seriously... Orlyonok versus Seamaster. That would be fully and entirely awesome to watch. Shame Alexeyev and his...

The Soviet Navy evolved anti ship missiles for its warships sooner than the West because it was faced with NATO's large surface fleets and their aircraft carriers. The spur to Western nations seems to have been the arrival of new Soviet large surface units in the 60s and the sinking of an...

A friend of mine has asked me to check out a rumour that HMS Cockade sank a suspected Soviet sub while serving with a US force in the Korean War. He thinks the papers are embargoed until at least 2050.

I wish to collect, gather and discuss (But more importantly collect) the various naval gun projects the Soviet Union created, abandoned or wished to create. Here I list them what I've gathered so far according to type, feel free to comment, provide info and I will edit them in. Capital ship...

View: https://twitter.com/dnkornev/status/1239917534943621121 http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-809.html

I am delighted that others are already making good use of the Alt 60s US Navy thread. It probably needs a balancing thread to cover the Soviet Navy, which for both the USN and the RN was "the enemy fleet in being". After the fifties scare surrounding the Swerdlow class cruisers, the nuclear...

According to one of the coments in the reddit thread below, it is planned for her to shorty become a museum ship in Arkhangelsk. Anyone have any more details on this? View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/lz8z84/top_view_of_dmitry_donskoy_5198x2923/

Found an awesome article online here of a visit to a museum dedicated to the Ekranoplan designer, Rostislav Alekseyev. Some very interesting models and artwork, attached.

Good listings of Soviet naval project numbers are difficult to find. Some were published in books following the events of 1991 and of course Globalsecurity published a list in the late 1990s. No details at all were released of merchant vessels, so about two years I set out to complete a list and...

Let's assume that USSR started to experiment with carriers in late 1920s, with planned rebuild of the training ship "Okean" into the light/training carrier "Komsomolets". While slow and of limited usefulness (roughly the equivalent of USN's "Langley"), this ship still allowed Soviet Navy to gain...

With the cancellation of the Merkuriy ssgn program in 1989, the successor to the Oscar II was to be the Oscar III, of which the first units were to be built right after the last of the Oscar IIs. I can't find any illustrations, or descriptions of the planned changes and improvements. Can anyone...

Some 'highly speculative' Soviet warship designs allegedly from Life Magazine in 1945, attributed to 'US Naval Architects' I stumbled across on Reddit... They come from this article in the 17th of December 1945 issue of the magazine... The Russian Navy is Reborn (Life Magazine, 17 December 1945)

Hello all, I'm searching infos regarding real (albeit conceptual only) battleship projects distinguishing themselves for extraordinary caliber of main guns and/or number of main guns and displacement. I'm aware of the following, some yet briefly discussed in other topics: -Tillman maximum...