Michael Kofman

After some two decades of visions, strategies, and plans outlining a need for heavy and medium icebreakers, the Coast Guard finally has launched the Polar Security Cutter project.

The Russian Navy had an interesting 2019, and while it did not turn out to be the year the service hoped for in terms of major combatant procurement, there certainly ...

Like the Soviet Navy before it, the Russian Navy’s true power lies in its submarine force. Although recovering from a prolonged period of limited investment and confined activity, the various ...

The surface combatants in today’s Russian Navy are an eclectic mix of mostly Soviet-era designs built in the 1980s and early 1990s—from guided-missile cruisers to a host of small missile ...

In terms of capital ships, today the Russian Federation Navy (RFN) has one aircraft carrier (the Admiral Kuznetsov—currently at sea off the coast of Syria), the sole survivor of an ...