The D-1 Class of nuclear attack sub was the first nuclear powered sub in the Russian navy, being conceived in the early 50s when the reactors became powerful and small enough for shipboard propulsion. Designed by the Central Naval Experimental Design Bureau and built by Severodvinsk Shipyards the fi...
The 1970s were a rather unstable time for the Greater Holy Russian Republic as the end of the Zhukov era led to minor led to minor infighting among the higher ranking Generals and Admirals. This resulted in several failed governments and coups, but by 1978 the situation had stabilised enough for the...
Here is the Freyja class battleship SMS Kaiserin Mathilde as completed in mid-1920 just as the Great War was beginning it's last few months. She was the second of 6 Freyja class battleships ordered in early-1917 as the Kaiserliche Marine was worried that that newer US were going to be both bigger an...