Summary: The deployment of the Akula I-class Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine in 1985 caught Western intelligence off guard, as they had not expected its arrival until a decade later.

The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...

The Akula (“Shark” in Russian) is a family of attack submarines in service with the Russian Navy since the Cold War. There are four versions of the submarine (Akula, Akula I, Akula II, and ...

This is the Ginetta Akula – an all-new hypercar commissioned to celebrate two decades of ownership under current owner Dr Lawrence Tomlinson. If it looks familiar, that’s because it was ...

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Mikhail Budnichenko, director general at the Sevmash naval shipyard has said no other Navies in the world have a submarine like the Akula-class Dmitry Donskoy.

TASS/. The Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ [NATO reporting name: Akula] nuclear-powered underwater cruiser Gepard successfully struck a notional enemy’s submarine with an anti-submarine missile ...