What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy’s decision not to modernize the Pyotr Veliky, one of two remaining Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruisers, underscores the vessel's diminishing value.

Summary and Key Points: The Kirov-class battlecruiser, a formidable nuclear-powered warship, was designed by the Soviet Navy to counter U.S. carrier strike groups and project naval power during ...

Soviet Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Frunze, March 25, 1986. ... Other Russian navy sources quickly denied the report to another state media outlet.

Still, the Russian Navy does exist, and one of its most interesting vessels, the Kirov-class battlecruiser, may be heading to the scrapyard because it's getting too expensive to maintain them.

Sevmash shipyard will deliver the Kirov-class Admiral Nakhimov to the Russian Navy in 2022, yard chief Mikhail Budnichenko told TASS at the Army-2019 international military and technical forum on ...

Tags: Battlecruiser, Kirov Battlecruiser, Russia, Russian Navy, and U.S. Navy Russia’s Huge Kirov-Class Battlecruisers Are The Russian Navy’s Deadly Swiss Army Knife February 6, 2020 ...

There is no doubt that Russia’s Kirov class super-sized nuclear cruisers are charismatic fighting machines. Bristling with sensors and weaponry, and seemingly alien in design when compared to ...

The Russian Kirov-class battlecruiser, Pyotr Velikiy, leaves for St Petersburg to take part in a ship parade marking Russian Navy Day. Lev Fedoseyev/TASS (Photo by Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Images) ...

The Russian navy Kirov-class battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy in the port of Severomorsk, in February 2016. Lev Fedoseyev\TASS via Getty Images ...

The Russian navy just got a lot closer to doubling, from one to two, its fleet of Kirov-class nuclear battlecruisers. But don’t get too excited. Even with two giant cruisers, the Russian navy ...

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 ...

Russian naval officers are paid $150 a month, and sailors receive $50 to $90--far less than the average Russian’s monthly earnings of $350. Many of the navy’s top people have left. Size of ...