Founded 111 years ago, Russia's submarine fleet now boasts scores of sleek and deadly submersible vessels armed with a wide range of torpedoes, cruise and ballistic missiles, capable of obliterating both naval and ground targets virtually anywhere in the world.

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Submarine base of the Russian Pacific Fleet in Vilyuchinsk, a closed town located on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-535 Yuri Dolgorukiy.

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Project 667BDR ballistic missile submarines K-433 Svyatoy Georgiy Pobedonosets and K-223 Podolsk at Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka.

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Project 971 nuclear-powered attack submarine Shchuka-B.

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A submarine's control room.

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Project 877 diesel-electric submarine B-800 Kaluga of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-535 Yuri Dolgorukiy of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-535 Yuri Dolgorukiy of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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An instrument station on a submarine.

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Launch of a RSM-56 Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile.

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Project 877 diesel-electric submarine.

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A submariner wearing emergency breathing apparatus.

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Project 945 nuclear submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-551 Vladimir Monomakh.

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Project 667BDRM nuclear submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Control room of the Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-535 Yuri Dolgorukiy.

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Project 667BDRM nuclear submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Project 955 ballistic missile submarine K-535 Yuri Dolgorukiy of the Russian Northern Fleet.

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Project 949A cruise missile submarine K-150 Tomsk.
