But Russian media reported the ship was a top-secret nuclear-powered mini-submarine. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the secrecy surrounding the tragedy by saying the information was a ...

TASS/. The Islas Malvinas vessel of the Argentine Navy that will take a Russian submersible and other equipment to the zone of search for the missing submarine San Juan, arrived at the Argentine ...

Syria's port city of Tartus gave Russia a naval base in the Mediterranean for more than five decades but the downfall of Bashar al-Assad to rebels led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has upended ...

The Russian ship Yantar ... oceanographic research vessel,' the Yantar possesses the capability to launch mini-submarines that can descend beyond 6,000 meters, enabling close proximity operations ...

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has been expanding its submarine fleet, which includes adding nuclear-powered vessels. Moiseyev was quoted in a Russian Defense Ministry statement that the Navy brought in ...

The Russian Navy accepted the fifth in a class of advanced nuclear attack submarines that is set to be based near Norway, Moscow announced last week. Attack boat Arkhangelsk was turned over to the ...