Summary and Key Points: The Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, originally called Project 955 by the Soviet Navy in 1980, represent a significant advancement in Russian naval ...

Initial design work for the program began in the 1980s, although the fall of the Soviet Union would interrupt progress; construction on the first vessel would not begin until 1996. The program was ...

In August, Russia officially marked the start of construction on two new Borei-A-class submarines. The class is Russia's newest, most advanced class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine. The ...

Russian nuclear-powered ballistic-missile sub K-84 Ekaterinburg in Murmansk, May 23, 2018. Lev Fedoseyev\TASS via Getty Images Russia has announced plans to decommission the ballistic-missile ...

November 13, 2023: By the end of this year the seventh of ten Russian Borei-class SSBN (ballistic missile carrying) nuclear submarines enters service. Three more are in various stages of completion ...

The Borei-class (Project 955) is Russia’s latest generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), designed ...

Key Points and Summary - Russia is modernizing its naval power, shifting from large, Soviet-era vessels to a smaller, stealthier, and more heavily armed submarine fleet centered on the new Borei-class ...

The Russian military on Sunday reported that it successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine. The Russian Defense ...

January 30, 2021: In December 2020 Russia conducted a multiple missile launch from one of its new SSBNs (ballistic missile nuclear subs). For the second time since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ...

In line with Russia’s current state defense procurement program, a total of 14 Borei-A and Yasen-M nuclear submarines are to be built by 2027 MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. Two Borei-A-class strategic ...

Russia has announced plans to decommission the ballistic-missile submarine Ekaterinburg. That will be the beginning of the end for the subs that have long been the backbone of the Soviet and Russian ...