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Why Russia’s New Khabarovsk Submarine Is a Nightmare for NATO

Russia’s Khabarovsk submarine is broadly similar to an existing Borei-class submarine, but was built specifically to launch the advanced Poseidon nuclear torpedo.
Russia announced "next-generation" weapons in 2018, including the Poseidon torpedo, which can be fired by the new "Khabarovsk ...
The event comes only days after the first long-range test of a Poseidon “doomsday torpedo,” which the submarine was designed ...
Russia’s submarine fleet remains “arguably second only to the United States,” built on a formidable nuclear deterrent of 15 ...
SATELLITE pictures have emerged showing Russia’s new nuclear-powered submarine capable of launching atomic torpedoes. The ...
RUSSIA has unveiled a new nuclear submarine built to unleash radioactive tidal waves on the West. The hulking Khabarovsk is designed to carry Vladimir Putin’s Poseidon nuclear drones, the infamous ...
Russia just launched a secretive nuclear submarine built to carry a weapon unlike anything seen before—silent, unstoppable, ...
"Today is a significant event for us – the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Khabarovsk is being launched from the renowned Sevmash shipyard," Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said after Navy ...
EADaily, November 3rd, 2025. The expert military magazine Military Watch Magazine (USA) publishes an expert assessment of the ...
As his Budapest summit with President Donald Trump unravelled and America sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies, ...
Interest in Greenland’s mineral potential has grown since Trump suggested buying the territory, home to many critical ...
Russia might be operating a network of sonar systems in the Barents Sea designed to detect submarines. The Harmony Network ...