SSGN was a Soviet nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine designed for anti-ship warfare, primarily targeting U.S. carrier battle groups. Entering service in the late 1960s, it was the first Soviet ...

Armed with P-70 Ametist (SS-N-7 Starbright) cruise missiles, the Papa-class was intended as a prototype for the more advanced Oscar-class SSGNs. However, its high cost, excessive noise levels ...

Russia’s Ametist Design Bureau, Izumrud JSC, and Tula Engineering Plant supply the Kirov ships’ 130mm AK-130 multipurpose twin-barrel gun. Notably, the gun can be operated remotely under ...

The Shipwreck missile was developed in the 1970s to replace the USSR’s older P-70 Ametist and P-120 Malakhit missiles- which possessed short ranges. As the U.S. Navy built up its carrier battle ...

A US university president has quit after her comments about antisemitism on campus during a Congressional hearing triggered a major backlash. Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of ...

Tom Marquand on board Ametist at Newmarket in June about to win by a nose The Cheveley Park Stud colours have been in form of late and were dominant at Cheltenham Festival to win the Gold Cup ...

AMETIST can win the SBK Lincoln (Heritage Handicap) (3.35pm) at Doncaster on Saturday afternoon as Flat racing returns. Yorkshire-born Newmarket trainer Willie Haggas loves to target this ...

Also in Dubai is Haggas's stable jockey and newly-wed Tom Marquand, so Rossa Ryan takes the ride on Ametist for Cheveley Park Stud, who won the race in 2010 with Penitent. Steve Donohoe will carry the ...