Summary: The deployment of the Akula I-class Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine in 1985 caught Western intelligence off guard, as they had not expected its arrival until a decade later.

The Akula (“Shark” in Russian) is a family of attack submarines in service with the Russian Navy since the Cold War. There are four versions of the submarine (Akula, Akula I, Akula II, and ...

Vladimir Putin attended a ceremony to announce the launch of the sixth and newest Project 885M Yasen-M nuclear-powered fast ...

was known in the USSR as the Project 941 Akula-class. At the time it was conceived, Moscow sought a submarine capable of carrying an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles, ensuring the ...

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Mikhail Budnichenko, director general at the Sevmash naval shipyard has said no other Navies in the world have a submarine like the Akula-class Dmitry Donskoy.

TASS/. The Project 971 ‘Shchuka-B’ [NATO reporting name: Akula] nuclear-powered underwater cruiser Gepard successfully struck a notional enemy’s submarine with an anti-submarine missile ...