What You Need to Know Right Now: In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the USS Baton Rouge, a U.S. Navy ...

What You Need to Know: In February 1992, the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class submarine USS Baton Rouge collided with the Russian Navy’s Sierra-class submarine B-276 Kostroma near the Russian ...

At 8:16 pm local time, the Baton Rouge collided with the B-276 Kostroma, a Russian Sierra-class nuclear submarine. The collision occurred 12 miles from the shoreline, near Kildin Island.

The U.S. Navy awarded defense contractor Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract to produce upgraded Trident II D5 missiles ...

Russia’s Sierra-Class Submarines were built to sink the U.S. Navy in a war – Soviet submarine designers subverted expectations when they began building hulls from titanium instead of default ...