Beyond its anti-surface and anti-air warfare roles, the Kirov Class also has a serious anti-submarine capability. There is a helicopter deck on the ship's stern capable of operating a Ka-25/27 ...

The Kirov cruisers were also designed to be self sufficient in anti-air weapons, the overall armament forming a layered defense system. Each carried 96 S-300F long-range surface to air missiles, ...

The warship that became Admiral Nakhimov was commissioned in 1988 under the name Kalinin and—as with all the other Kirov cruisers—renamed in the early 1990’s following the Soviet collapse ...

The Russian navy for nearly a decade has been trying to double, from one to two, its active fleet of huge, nuclear-powered battlecruisers. It’s not going well. The 1991 collapse of the Soviet ...

Russia may be about to relaunch the battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. ... except for the Project 1144.2 Kirov Class nuclear cruisers, of which Admiral Nakhimov is one.

Kirov-class vessels are missile cruisers, and they have many types onboard. These include various surface-to-surface missiles (SSM), surface-to-air missiles (SAM), and anti-submarine weapons (ASM).

Russian navy Kirov-class battle cruiser Pyotr Velikiy launches an anti-ship missile during an exercise, on September 19, 2017. The Soviet-era battle cruiser is reportedly being refitted to carry ...

The Kirov cruisers were also designed to be self sufficient in anti-air weapons, the overall armament forming a layered defense system. Each carried 96 S-300F long-range surface to air missiles, ...