Filenews 29 March 2024 - by David Axe
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Navy's AGI "spy boats" lurked along the shorelines of U.S. and allied forces in order to detect and attempt to intercept military radar and other systems.
Today, larger and more sophisticated spy ships have replaced AGIs. One of them, the Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship Ivan Khurs, which belongs to the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.