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Circa 100, 8 variants (1968-2017) The Russian “Bear” casts its shadow over the USN To start this new cold war…

WW2 Soviet Cruisers Between prewar, interwar and cold war designs, the Soviet Union’s Navy (Sovietsky Flota) aligned about 32 cruisers,…

Italy (1935), Duca D’Aosta, Eugenio di Savoia The middle Condottiere The group IV of the Condottieri cruisers “superclass” included the…

Spanish pre-dreadnought Battleship (1885-1929) Pelayo was a French-built Battleship, first modern one in service with the Armada. A fitting subject…

France – Treaty Light Cruiser 1828-1959 An innovative French cruiser Named after a famous French naval engineer, Emile Bertin, this…

Bundesmarine Training Cruiser (A59) 1959-1990 West German Navy’s flagship In this day of Germany Unity (3 October) what more but…

WW1 British Torpedo Boats United Kingdom (1876-1905): Circa 120 vessels The forgotten linage One aspect of the Royal Navy which…

Svea class coast defence ships (1886) Swedish Navy – Svea, Göta, Thule The Svea class armored ships (“pansarskepp”) of the…

Tupolev TB-1 P (1930) 1931-34: 66 converted. The Tupolev Saga For that introductory matter into Soviet naval air power, it…

Vasco Da Gama (1875) – Armoured Corvette with a 58 years career Portugal – Ironclad 1875-1935 The Portuguese Ironclad In…