The Great Kirov-Class Comeback? Not So Fast... "Last Sunday, the second nuclear reactor was launched on the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov," a source told TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency.

If that missile was shot down, another would rise to take its place. The Kirov cruisers were also designed to be self sufficient in anti-air weapons, the overall armament forming a layered defense ...

TASS/. The name of the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser The Pyotr Veliky will be given to a project 955A Borey-A class strategic nuclear-powered submarine after the cruiser is withdrawn from ...