The Bay of Biscay, a notorious submarine graveyard, witnessed the sinking of the Soviet submarine K-8 in 1970, along with its two nuclear reactors and four nuclear-tipped torpedoes.

Fortunately, a Soviet repair vessel arrived, and took K-8 under tow. ... Much of K-8’s crew reboarded the submarine, and for three days fought a life-and-death struggle to save the boat.

The Soviet Union’s November-class (Project 627 “Kit”) submarines, the first nuclear-powered boats in the Soviet Navy, were ...

Built and designed over 50 years ago, the Soviet K-222 submarine still holds the record for the world's fastest submarine ever built, reaching speeds of 82.8 kilometers (51.4 miles) per hour or 44 ...

Featuring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, K-19 tells the true story of the Soviet ballistic missile nuclear submarine staring disaster in the face under the sea in 1961.

Soviet Project 629A class, called Golf-II class by NATO, diesel-electric ballistic-missile submarine K-129 in 1968. CIA K-129 was launched in May 1959.

It's true that the U.S.S. Grayback was a submarine that had a crew of 80 sailors when it was destroyed in World War II around February 1944. It's also true that it was found by the Lost 52 Project ...

On Feb. 24, 1968, the Soviet submarine K-129, 328 feet long, diesel-powered, with a crew of 98, sailed from its base on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east.

My analysis of Russian submarine building programs suggests that by 2030 Russia may field 8 submarines with Zircon missiles, and 17 by 2040. Zircon is not the only ground-breaking weapon being ...

Since then, there has been a steady uptick in Russian submarine activity. But the real changes have come as a result of Russia’s $670 billion modernization program, announced in 2011.