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Kommuna is a submarine rescue ship [1] [2] in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet and the world's oldest active duty naval vessel. [3] A catamaran, [4] she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov. The ship was launched the following year, and commissioned on 14 July 1915.
Worldwide, Kommuna is the oldest active-duty navy ship still in service, at 110 years old and inherited from the Imperial Russian Navy. Due to the size of Moskva and that she sank in one piece, bringing her to the surface is thought to be impractical. The aim is likely to recover encryption material, weapons, bodies, and other sensitive ...
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The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major is seen in 2023. (Yoruk Isik/Reuters/File) The crisis center of the Russian Foreign Ministry said the vessel, Ursa Major, sank south of Spain after a blast in the ...
A Russian cargo ship called Ursa Major sank in the Mediterranean Sea overnight after an explosion ripped through its engine room and two of its crew are still missing, the Russian Foreign Ministry ...
However, some Russian military bloggers reported that the ship was destroyed, with conflicting information about the crew. Sergey Kotov appears to be one of Russia’s newest, state-of-the-art ships.
Kursk was a Project 949A Antey (Oscar II-class) submarine, twice the length of a 747 jumbo jet, and one of the largest submarines in the Russian Navy.. On the morning of 12 August 2000, Kursk was in the Barents Sea, participating in the "Summer-X" exercise, the first large-scale naval exercise planned by the Russian Navy in more than a decade, and also its first since the dissolution of the ...
In a twin blow to Moscow's faltering invasion of its neighbor, Ukrainian forces destroyed a pontoon bridge in the Donbas region and a Russian naval ship was set afire in the Black Sea.