Brown / Brown Quartz The Kashalot Class Submarines -

The Kashalot Class Submarines - entered into service near the end of the Soviet era in 1988

the West became aware of a Soviet Typhoon project in 1974

Kirov's size and weapons complement have given her the unofficial designation of a battlecruiser throughout much of the world

The numbers 1957 appears on the dial as an immediate reference to the year that the Soviets rocketed Sputnik beyond the Earth's atmosphere

was a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with the Soviet Navy and later with the Russian Navy

Brown / Brown Quartz The Kashalot Class Submarines -User Manual: EN Spetsnaz is a Russian language umbrella term for special forces. The concept of using special forces tactics and strategies in the Soviet Union was originally proposed by the military theorist Mikhail Svechnykov, who envisaged the development of unconventional warfare capabilities in order to overcome disadvantages that conventional forces faced in the field. This idea was developed by Ilya Starinov dubbed the gradfather of the