Soviet navy

Soviet Navy - ''MAXIM GORKY'' a Kirov Class Cruiser

Key Point: The lesson is don’t overestimate your opponent. Back in the 1980s, a war with the Soviet Union seemed like a naval nightmare. Fiction writers like Tom Clancy and John Hackett painted a future where Western navies faced hordes of Red bombers, cruise missiles, submarines and surface warships. Naturally, in these novels the Good Guys […]

Honor Guard of the Soviet Navy.

Soviet Naval Infantry.

Another FC2 picture, thanks FireChief.

The development of ever-more-capable drones, plus the perceived vulnerability of large aircraft carriers to the latest anti-ship missiles, has convinced at least one naval observer that hybrid drone carriers—combining the qualities of a flattop and a cruiser—are the warship of the future.

Soviet Navy cadets of the Kaliningrad Higher Naval Academy marching through Red Square at the 1984 October Revolution Day Parade in Moscow.

Soviet era carriers still in service [3000×6000]