Moscow's cover-up of the Kursk submarine incident seriously damaged Russian President Vladimir Putin's prestige—and was even viewed by some as a "turning point" for modern Russia. On August 12, 2000, ...

In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “ Kursk ” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled military drill. The K-141 vessel ultimately sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea, ...

Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

U.S, UK, and Norwegian forces have mounted a significant anti-submarine operation in the Norwegian Sea using maritime patrol aircraft to track suspected ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union built the K-278, an advanced nuclear-powered submarine designed to push the limits of technology. But during a patrol in 1989, disaster struck when a turbine failure led ...

Russian and Chinese submarines have conducted a coordinated joint patrol in the Sea of Japan, shifting their naval cooperation from the visible surface to the opaque depths of undersea warfare. This ...