HMS Vanguard (23)
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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, and the only ship of
Profile view of Vanguard underway
Overhead view of Vanguard
Vanguard during NATO Operation Mainbrace, 1952
Rear quarter view of Vanguard showing her transom stern
Sverdlov-class cruiser
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The Sverdlov-class cruisers, Soviet designation Project 68bis, were the last conventional gun cruisers built for the Soviet Navy. They were built in the 1950s and were based on Soviet, German, and Ita
HMS Vanguard (23)
…II's Coronation Review. Through the mid-1950s she was kept active, along with four older battleships in reserve, largely as a counter to the Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser fleet, which she easily outperformed. As the Blackburn Buccaneer attack aircraft entered service, the need for large-gun ships to counter the Sverdlovs…
Admiral Ushakov in 1981
A Tu-95 Bear overflies a Sverdlov-class cruiser 1975
Dmitry Pozharsky (1968)