During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s navy was a dynamic foe of the West. Notably, the Soviet submarine force was a real challenger to the United States Navy and NATO. Soviet submarine designers ...

The first was the USS Thresher (SSN-593), the lead boat of a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines developed in the late 1950s. She sank during deep tests on April 10, 1963. Five years later ...

The Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – was used to track Soviet submarines in UK waters, and to aid in search and rescue operations, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.

Work to rebuild a submarine-hunting aircraft at a top York ... Used in action in the 1950s and 60s, the Shackleton WR963 had been based at Coventry Airport and was kept in ‘live running ...