February 27, 2025: SSBNs are nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. The Russian Navy is more than halfway through its SSBN upgrade and refurbishment program. Currently Russia has fifteen SSBNs ...
January 9, 2023: At the end of 2022 Russia put the Suvorov (K-553), its sixth Borei class SSBN (nuclear ballistic missile sub) into service. Suvorov is the third of the marginally improved Borei B ...
Russia's Project 955A Borei-A class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine carries 15 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles — each armed with up to 10 multiple independently targetable ...
Days after announcing his decision to run in the March 2024 presidential elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the navy shipyard in the city of Severodvinsk in eastern Russia on December ...
The keels for two Borei AM-class strategic nuclear ballistic submarines will be laid at the Sevmash shipyard sometime this year, Russian state media reported March 27. The vessels will eventually ...
Borei-K Class Submarine- What We Know Right Now: Moscow’s Project 955 Borei-class submarines were designed following the collapse of the USSR to replace the country’s older Delta and Typhoon boats.