A senior lieutenant serving on the Gepard atomic submarine, part of the Northern Fleet, hanged himself in his cabin. A senior lieutenant serving on the Gepard atomic submarine, part of the Northern Fleet, hanged himself in his cabin, Northern Fleet Investigative Committee spokesperson Alexander...

India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it modernizes its military to match China's. NEW DELHI — India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered...

... million rubles ($24.5 million) on eight underwater drones made by Icelandic firm Teledyne Gavia, according to an order posted on the ministry's website. Applications of so-called unmanned underwater vehicles include surveillance, clearing mines and anti-submarine warfare. Teledyne Gavia, formerly known as Hafmynd Ehf, has been developing underwater drones since 1997. Russia has struggled in recent years to produce sophisticated aerial drones of its own, instead purchasing Israeli technology for its armed...

... million rubles ($24.5 million) on eight underwater drones made by Icelandic firm Teledyne Gavia, according to an order posted on the ministry's website. Applications of so-called unmanned underwater vehicles include surveillance, clearing mines, and anti-submarine warfare. Teledyne Gavia, formerly known as Hafmynd ehf, has been developing underwater drones since 1997. Russia has struggled in recent years to produce sophisticated aerial drones of its own, instead purchasing Israeli technology for its armed...

... contaminants. Potential applications of the recent breakthrough could include the discovery of new life, hints about pre-ice age evolution and give a glimpse of how life exists in extreme conditions. Rumors that these lakes were also home to secret German submarine bases during World War II are also being revisited in the wake of renewed excitement, driven by Nazi claims that they had created an "unassailable" Antarctic fortress and by archival evidence describing the construction of ice caves...

... ago and finds it preposterous that any non-comedian would ever quote him. Nevertheless, Russia Today published a story on Jan. 10 based solely on his claims that Saakashvili's dream city, Lazika, is being built to house a U.S. military base, that a submarine port is being constructed at the Kulevi oil terminal and that a secret airport has been built in southern Georgia. Media from around the world pounced on the story despite the total lack of corroborating evidence. Another marginal opposition...

... spent fuel it produces annually, though it has set a target to raise efficiency to the point where it reprocesses as much as it turns out each year by 2020, Novikov said. Although nuclear material is routinely moved from power stations and nuclear submarines to the country's two main storage and reprocessing plants in Zheleznogorsk and Mayak in the Chelyabinsk region, spent fuel from Chernobyl-type RBMK-1000 reactors has traditionally been stored onsite at the stations that use them. Greenpeace...

... not be able to hit every sea-based nuclear missile in its initial strike, Washington needs a small missile defense system of 30 or so interceptors to strike the two or three missiles Russia might still be able to launch in retaliation from one of its submarines. At the same time that Rogozin and others describe this apocalyptic nuclear scenario, they are indignant that the United States won't share every single technical detail about its missile defense system. Then, they claim that Washington not...

... could launch a simultaneous, "lightening-speed, massive and paralyzing" missile attack against all of Russia's land-based nuclear weapons. This would not give Russia a chance to respond with a counterattack — except, perhaps, for a few submarine-based missiles, but these would be easily intercepted by even a modest U.S. missile defense system. This type of Cold War hysteria takes us back to the apocalyptic year of 1983, if not 1962. The notion that the United States orchestrated Ukraine's...

... almost halves the distance between Europe and the Far East," Aliyev said. Shipyard's Tough Times In the White Sea port of Severodvinsk, defense contracts won by the shipyard and tested at a nearby naval base still pay the bulk of wages. Big black submarines lumbered out to sea from its docks in ice-free waters without the help of tugboats or icebreakers unusually late into the fall last year. Built in the 1930s, the state-owned Sevmash shipyard 35 kilometers north of Arkhangelsk, is a jumble of...