Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Kirov Class Nuclear Powered Battle Cruiser RFS Pyotr Veliky seen from Fleet Oiler RFS Akademik Pashin...2018.

Kirovs pier side, also the last of the 4; PETYR VELIKI......DFO

After years in the yard the mighty ADM. NAKIMOV was floated out today for fitting out............. DFO

A nice view of nuclear powered Kirov Class Battlecruiser RFS Pyotr Velikiy....2020.

Two views of the rusting hulk of FRUNZE....... DFO

Kirov Class Battlecruiser RFS Pyotr Velikiy...2020.

Here is the KIROV under construction........... DFO

Russia's Kirov-Class Battlecruisers: A Modern 'Battleship'?


One of the most ambitious Soviet naval projects ever to make it into service, the colossal Kirov-class battlecruiser is an enduring fixture of Russia’s surface combatant fleet.

By the 1970s, the colossal battleships of WWI and WWII fame had fallen sharply out of favor with the world’s leading navies. These ships were increasingly seen as too expensive, and too vulnerable, to justify their steep procurement and maintenance costs. But even as western navies concluded that the age of the battleship had passed, the USSR saw an opportunity to build a large surface vessel of unprecedented scope. Leveraging the naval weapons and targeting innovations of the past decades, the Soviet shipbuilding industry set out to design a battlecruiser—that is, a lighter and faster variant of battleship—for the discrete purpose of destroying U.S. submarines. The Project 1144 Kirov class later grew into the more versatile mission purpose of holding the U.S. Navy’s carrier battle groups at risk, boasting a vast arsenal of torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles to threaten aircraft carriers and strategic submarines alike. Underlying these tactical goals was a broader strategic purpose: the Kirov battlecruisers were to operate in conjunction with a planned nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleet to project Soviet power across the world.

Continues at - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ ... hip-192124

Link from Tim.

Kirov Class Battlecruiser RFS Admiral Lazarev (Ex Frunze) with Sovremenny Class Destroyer RFS Burnyy and Ivan Rogov Class Landing Ship RFS Aleksandr Nikolayev pictured awaiting the scrappers at Abrek Bay in April 2021.

Here she is being scrapped...........ALLES KAPUT! DFO