[CaptainCrunch]

The Russian's have been putting a ton of effort into new sub designs. They've put out 2 of their new Yasen class SSN's which are slightly behind the Seawolf class and Virginia class in terms of noise, but are very advanced sensor and weapons wise, very fast and very tough


The Belgorod is an Oscar 2 guided cruise missile antishipping platform primarily.



The Yasen can also launch cruise missiles as well as acting like a hunter killer


The Russians have also launched 5 of their new fourth generation ballistic missile submarines of the Borei class and are already working on a 5th generation replacement class.


Basically the Russian's have gone away from their prior naval strategies where they wanted deep diving high speed boats that would hunt cooperatively and in great numbers like the Alpha Class. To a smaller navy built around an american model of quite boats that hunt alone and really quiet black hole missile boats.


In a lot of ways the Russians have really closed the gap on the American designs.