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Russia’s Typhoon Mega Submarine is Over Fifteen Times the Size of a Regular Submersible Ship
As a result of decline in the post-Soviet Russian economy and defence sector, the Russian Navy today relies overwhelmingly on Soviet built ships for high endurance missions with all of its largest combat vessels being of Soviet origin. This applies not only to the surface fleet, where post-Soviet Russia has yet to lay down a single destroyer or cruiser for its own Navy …
The Su-57 Fighter’s Two Hypersonic Missiles That Could Ruin American F-35 Operations
Entering serial production in June 2019, and subsequently being inducted into the Russian Air Force in December 2020, the Su-57 next generation heavyweight fighter represents product of a highly ambitious program to develop the first entirely new Russian fighter airframe since the Soviet collapse. …
Why Russian MiG-31K Jets with Mach 10 Hypersonic Missiles Just Made Their First Ever Deployment to Syria
The Russian Air Force has deployed MiG-31K Foxhound heavyweight combat jets to Khmeimim Airbase in Syria, its most active military facility outside the former USSR, following an expansion of the base’s runways in 2020. This follows the first ever deployment of Tu-22M supersonic bombers to the facility in May, with the longer runways being key to hosting such aircraft. Russian state media outlet …