The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

Royce Williams was flying an inferior F9F Panther. Military aviation experts say Williams' success that day was a result of his training and readiness. More than 70 years ago, a US Navy pilot took on ...

This real-life Korean War “Top Gun” kept his war story secret for 50 years. In 1952, then-U.S. Navy pilot Royce Williams engaged in possibly the longest solo aerial dogfight against four Soviet jets, ...

Before the Kilo-class and Oscar-class Submarines, the Shchuka-class was the Soviet Workhorse: During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy maintained the largest fleet of submarines in the world with as many ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union constructed a surface warfare vessel that defied all logic: a nuclear-powered leviathan nearly ...

Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes of sparking a “second revolution.” This staunch communist, Valery Sablin, ...

In one of the most masterful pieces of flying in Navy history, Royce Williams of Escondido took on seven Soviet MiGs in Korea in 1952 and shot down four of them in a solo dogfight that was kept secret ...

The Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine was supposed to be the backbone of a new undersea fleet, a 29-boat answer to ...

Seventy years ago this fall in the skies over North Korea, U.S. Navy fighter pilot Royce Williams pulled off what many experts say is one of the greatest feats in aviation history. For 35 minutes, he ...