What You Need to Know: Western sanctions are straining Russia’s military-industrial complex, as demonstrated by the prolonged ...

If the centerpiece of the United States Navy’s offensive strategy was the aircraft carrier, since the Cold War era, the Russian Navy’s main offensive system was their battlecruiser. Heavily armed, ...

The Russian Kirov-class Battlecruisers were the largest and heaviest surface vessels, not aircraft carriers, on the sea during the Cold War. Russia initially planned to build five but later reduced ...

Russian servicemen took the bodies of the dead and secret equipment from the sunken cruiser Moskva. Source: Representative of the Main Ukrainian Chief Intelligence Directorate of the the Ministry of ...

Ukraine surprised the world by sinking Russian missile cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea this spring. The attack showed how modern warships are susceptible to well-planned attacks with modern weapons.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Moskva cruiser, Russia's Black Sea Fleet flagship, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that Ukraine's victory in the war is inevitable, and ...

Russia’s Kirov-class battlecruisers, known in Russia as Project 1144 Orlan, emerged during the Cold War as the Soviet Union’s response to US aircraft carrier dominance. Launched in 1986 and formally ...

The U.S. provided intelligence that enabled Ukraine to identify and sink the missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, U.S. officials said Thursday. Ukrainian forces fired two ...