Fidel Castro’s Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito ...

Key Points and Summary - The Soviet-era VA-111 Shkval was a "near-unstoppable" torpedo that used supercavitation to "fly" through water at 200+ knots, enveloping itself in a gas bubble to eliminate ...

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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union placed heavy reliance on its submarine fleet to negate America’s advantage in naval forces. The U.S. Navy was not only tasked to help protect the flow of ...