Knyaz Vladimir is the first model in the Borei-A line, which is an upgrade to the Borei class of nuclear-powered strategic submarines. The Borei class is much smaller and lighter than the iconic Typhoon class it replaces, but it is faster and has a more deadly payload. The RSM-56 Bulava is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) variant of the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, which is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Russian missile technology. Knyaz Vladimir entered service in 2020, and the Russian Navy plans to commission six more Borei-A submarines through 2027.

The Rubin Design Bureau designed Project 955A, with Sergey Kovalev serving as the lead designer. The keel was supposed to be set down in 2010, but it was delayed until July 2012 due to a price dispute between the Russian MOD and United Shipbuilding Corporation.

Knyaz Vladimir is the first unit in the Project 955A sub-class, and it will differ from earlier Project 955 units in various ways. These upgrades will include significant structural alterations, a lower acoustic signature, and more contemporary communication equipment. While previously rumored to have four more (20 total) launch tubes, the 955A had 16 missile tubes, the same as the project 955. The submarine will be outfitted with the RSM-56 Bulava, Russia's newest submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). Knyaz Vladimir and its sister ships will eventually replace the Russian Navy's Soviet-era Delta and Typhoon class submarines.

According to TASS military industry sources, the Knyaz Vladimir's commissioning has been delayed until the first quarter of 2020 due to a number of problems discovered. According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda story, which cites Alexei Rakhmanov, President of the USC, the commissioning time will be "end of January" in 2020.

Knyaz Vladimir was accepted by Russia's Ministry of Defence on May 28, 2020, and commissioned into the Russian Navy on June 12, 2020. The submarine is assigned to the Northern Fleet's 31st Submarine Division and bears the pennant number K-549.

On March 26, 2021, an unprecedented operation occurred in the Arctic Ocean, as Knyaz Vladimir and two Delta IV-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) armed with 48 SLBMs surfaced simultaneously from beneath the ice with precision in a limited space with a radius of 300 meters for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy, the former Soviet Navy, and the world. The operation was part of the Umka 2021 exercise. The 1.5-meter-thick ice was breached by launching a torpedo. Russian Northern Fleet submarines train under ice conditions all the time, including cruising under the Arctic, and as part of their training, they learn how to identify or drill holes in the ice with a torpedo to surface and dive.Russian naval submarines break ice on a regular basis, and they have developed special ice-breaking weaponry to fire SLBMs, which were first tested in 2014.

Yasen-M symbolizes Russia's next generation of nuclear-powered cruise missile attack submarines. Kazan is the first model in the Yasen-M series, an upgrade package for the original Yasen class, with seven more models set to enter service by 2027. The Yasen-M class, with its much lower acoustic signature, closes the noise signature gap between US and Soviet/Russian submarines that existed throughout the Cold War and early post-Soviet years. But where Yasen-M truly stands out is in its diverse and formidable weaponry, which includes Russia's new Kalibr-M cruise missiles with a range of up to 450 kilometers and optional compatibility with 3M22 Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missiles.

Kazan's initial crew was formed in March 2016, with the submarine scheduled to be commissioned in 2017. On August 23, 2016, the Sevmash shipyard announced that the submarine would be delivered to the Russian Navy in 2018.

On March 31, 2017, Kazan was wheeled out of the construction hall and thrown onto the water. It began sea trials on September 24, 2018, and is anticipated to join the Russian Navy in 2019. In October 2019, Alexei Rakhmanov, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, indicated that Kazan's deployment would be postponed until the end of 2020 due to technical challenges with its complicated control systems.

The submarine's trials included firing the 3M-54 Kalibr and P-800 Oniks cruise missiles. They were completed in December 2020.

As of April 2021, the commissioning date was reported to be July 25, 2021. However, the vessel was actually commissioned on May 7, 2021.

On June 6, 2024, it was announced that the nuclear-powered submarine was on its way to Cuba for a military practice. It arrived in Havana Harbor on June 12 as part of a convoy of four ships, including the frigate Admiral Gorshkov. Both of these ships have the Zircon nuclear-capable hypersonic cruise missile. According to reports, the frigate is on its way to the Mediterranean to serve as the command vessel for the Russian Navy's operations group.

Marshal Ustinov, the second Slava-class cruiser, was developed using the same carrier-killer theory as the Kirov-class. Ustinov was recently refitted, trading its age.

The P-500 Bazalt missile system is compatible with the newer P-1000 Vulkan cruise missiles. The cruiser also serves as a formidable area defense tool, carrying forty 9K33 Osa short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. It also holds a naval variant of the S-300 missile system, with sixty-four missiles dispersed across eight launchers.

Marshal Ustinov is a Slava-class cruiser developed in the Soviet Union as a Raketnyy Kreyser, or "anti-ship rocket cruiser (RKR)." Originally built, the vessel had a standard displacement of 10,000 tonnes (10,000 long tons) and 12,700 t (12,500 long tons) at full load. By 2009, this had dropped to 9,530 t (9,380 long tons) standard and 11,670 tonnes (11,490 long tons) at maximum capacity. The cruiser is 186.4 metres (611 feet 7 inches) long, with a beam of 20.8 metres (68 feet 3 inches) and a draft of 8.4 metres (27 feet 7 inches).

The vessel is powered by a combined gas or gas (COGOG) system, which consists of four 23,300 kilowatts (31,250 shp) boost gas turbines and two 8,900 kW (12,000 shp) cruise gas turbines driving two shafts for a total of 93,000 kW (125,000 shp). This allows the cruiser to reach a maximum speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) and go 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). As built, the cruiser had a complement of 505. This was later decreased to 476, including 62 officers.

Gremyashchiy-class corvettes are large multifunctional warships designed to supplement the Steregushchiy class, which is already in service with the Russian Navy. They have been developed to be more habitable for long-duration missions and can launch cruise missiles.

The class was developed with German MTU diesel engines for propulsion. However, due to sanctions emanating from the Ukrainian crisis, delivery of MTU diesels beyond the first two units were halted, forcing the cancelation of additional units. Instead, new units from the previous Steregushchiy class are being ordered. In May 2016, Corvette Gremyashchiy acquired two Russian-made 1DDA-12000 diesel units based on Kolomna Works' 16D49 engines, which replaced the previously necessary German MTU diesels.

In late April 2019, the class's lead vessel, Gremyashchiy, conducted sea testing. On October 31, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Gremyashchiy would be armed with hypersonic 3M22 Zircon anti-ship cruise missiles. In December 2019, as part of its state acceptance trials, the ship entered the White Sea to test its primary missile system against a variety of targets.

In August 2020, an additional two corvettes were ordered. Because the Project 20385 vessels were ordered in conjunction with a larger order for additional Project 20380 ships, they could be built at either the Amur Shipyard, if destined for the Pacific Fleet, or Severnaya Verf. As of November 2020, the distribution amongst shipyards had not to be determined. In December, it was revealed that four new corvettes of the class would be built at the Amur Shipyard for the Pacific Fleet, with service entry planned for 2024 to 2028.

Provornyy was severely damaged by fire while under construction at the Severnaya Verf yard in December 2021. A reconstruction was estimated to take five years.

Akula class, Soviet designation Project 971 Shchuka-B ('Pike-B', NATO reporting name Akula) is a class of fourth-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) that the Soviet Navy first deployed in 1986. Shchuka-B is divided into four sub-classes or flights: the original seven Project 971 boats (codenamed Akula I), which were commissioned between 1984 and 1990; six Project 971Is (Improved Akulas), which were commissioned between 1991 and 2009; one Project 971U (Akula II), which was commissioned in 1995; and one Project 971M (Akula III), commissioned in 2001. The Russians refer to all submarines as Shchuka-B, regardless of modification.

The name Akula (meaning "shark" in Russian) was used by the Soviets for a separate class of submarines, the Project 941 (known in the West as the Typhoon class), which may cause confusion. The Soviets called Project 971 Shchuka-B, but the West dubbed it Akula after the lead ship, K-284.

According to defense analyst Norman Polmar, the launch of the first submarine in 1985 "shook everyone [in the West] up" since Western intelligence services had not expected the Soviet Union to create such a boat for another ten years.

The Akula has a double hull system consisting of an inner pressure hull and an exterior "light" hull. This provides for more flexibility in the construction of the outside hull form, resulting in a submarine with greater reserve buoyancy than its western counterparts.

When retracted, the Akula's towed sonar array is housed in the characteristic "bulb" or "can" on top of the rudder. Most Akulas are equipped with wake detection systems and hydrodynamic sensors that measure temperature and salinity changes. They are found on the leading edge of the sail, the outer hull casing in front of the sail, and the bottom of the hull forward of the sail.

The Karakurt class, also known as Project 22800 Karakurt (Russian: "black widow spider"), is a series of Russian Navy corvettes (small missile ships) that was initially commissioned in 2018.

Almaz initially publicly revealed Project 22800 at the International Military-Technical Forum «ARMY-2015», which was held in Kubinka. At the time, the class was referred to as "Project 12300". During the exhibition, it was also reported that 18 ships are scheduled for construction.

The first two ships, Uragan ("hurricane", now Mytishchi) and Taifun ("typhoon", now Sovetsk), were put down at the Pella Shipyard in Saint Petersburg on December 24, 2015.

In August 2016, it was reported that seven ships had been ordered from the Pella Shipyard (one of which would be built at the More Shipyard in Feodosia), with five more ordered from the Zelenodolsk Shipyard. Three of the five ordered ships, Tsiklon ("cyclone"), Askold, and Amur, which were originally scheduled to be built by the Zelenodolsk Shipyard, were later lay down at the Zalyv Shipbuilding yard in Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine.

Project 22800 derives from Project 12300 Skorpion, a proposed 1990s Almaz design for a 500-ton displacement missile boat, and was also heavily influenced by Project 21631, the Buyan-M corvettes. Ships of the class have a stealth shaped superstructure with an integrated mast carrying four phased array radar panels. The primary armament consists of Kalibr cruise missiles or P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship missiles carried in eight UKSK VLS cells in the rear part of the superstructure, behind the bridge. The corvettes built for the Russian Navy will be equipped with a 76.2 mm AK-176MA automatic dual-purpose gun, a modernized version of the AK-176.

However, at least on the first ship, the 100 mm A-190 was installed.[23] A proposed export version may carry the Italian OTO Melara 76 mm gun. For anti-missile defense, the first two ships will only carry a pair of AK-630M gun-based CIWS.

Starting from the third ship, they will be equipped with Pantsir-M, a navalized version of the Pantsir surface-to-air missile system. The third vessel of the class, Odintsovo, entered service in the Baltic Fleet with the Pantsir-M system in November 2020. The project 22800 is not designed for anti-submarine warfare.