An 810th Brigade T-55 in 1980. In 1980, the Soviet navy’s 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, based in Sevastopol on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, owned a battalion of 1950s-vintage T-55 tanks. In ...

Key Points and Summary - The 1975 mutiny that inspired The Hunt for Red October had a radically different motive than the fiction it spawned. -The real-life figure was Valery Sablin, a Soviet naval ...

Many of fleet's ships are old, destined for scrap; Fleet is due to get new submarines, ships, aircraft. Ships used in Ukraine crisis, against Georgia, off Syria. Gently bobbing up and down in the ...

Last month, Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu unveiled a new plan to restructure the Russian military away from the brigade model and back to its pre-2008 ...

For generations of Soviets, “crossing the Dniepr” evokes the epic 1943 battle that pitted three million Soviet soldiers against one million Nazi defenders. As memorialized in monuments and murals, ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on Sunday, severing Soviet-era ties amid heightened security after the suspected ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to oppose Soviet expansionism in Western Europe. The end of the war saw the Soviet Union solidify its gains in Eastern Europe, ...