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National Security Journal on MSN7d
‘Dead Design’: Russia’s Kirov-Class Battlecruiser Catastrophe Is Going to Get Worse
Back in Action? Key Point: Though the Admiral Nakhimov’s two nuclear reactors have been recently reactivated, it might be ...
Megaprojects on MSN9d
Kirov-Class Battlecruisers and the Rebirth of Naval Firepower
The Kirov-Class was born when the world had written off battleships as obsolete. This Soviet-era nuclear-powered leviathan ...
The Asia Live10d
End of a Leviathan: Russia Retires Pyotr Veliky, Closing a Chapter on Cold War Naval Supremacy
Russia’s maritime strategy and an unmistakable break with its Soviet past, Moscow has confirmed that it will not proceed with the long-anticipated modernization of its nuclear-powered battlecruiser ...
The National Interest29d
Russia Rethinks Its Battlecruiser Plans
There has been repeated speculation that the Russian Navy’s Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov could finally return to service later this year after a decades-long refit. Last month ...
The National Interest4mon
Russian Military
The short answer is both. Russia is sliding... Nuclear Mistake: The Kirov-class battlecruisers, once envisioned as the crown jewels of Russian naval might, face obsolescence in today’s A2/AD and ...