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Jane's Fighting Ships has noted in one of its 1999-2000 editions that some ships have little capability, but remain flying an ensign so that crews are entitled to be paid. [ 1 ] Jane's Fighting Ships online edition, dated 8 March 2010, added "There are large numbers of most classes 'in reserve', and flying an ensign so that skeleton crews may ...
Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers are designated as heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers by the Russian Navy because their main strike armament is long-range anti-ship cruise missiles and the air wing is intended for defensive purposes. The flight deck area of the class is 14,700 square metres (158,000 sq ft), and aircraft takeoff is assisted by a ...
The Russian Navy classified these ships as "minnyi kreiser" \ «минный крейсер» (Torpedo cruiser): something between cruiser and torpedo boat, and the direct predecessor of destroyers, but were rather larger and stronger than the destroyers of the 1900s (decade). The ships were purposed to struggle with an opponent's torpedo boats ...
Sullivan said that Chinese and Russian vessels came similarly close to Alaska last summer and were encountered by a US Coast Guard ship on a routine patrol at the time – a “tepid” response ...
(Combat Annales of the Russian Navy. Chronicle of the Most Important Events of the Russian Navy History from the 9th Century up to 1917) Information of Swedish warships by Jan-Erik Karlsson; Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905 – Conway Maritime Press; Naval Wars in the Baltic 1553–1850 (1910) – R. C. Anderson
List of active Russian Navy ships; S. List of Russian sail frigates This page was last edited on 18 November 2012, at 15:39 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
This is a list of Russian Navy equipment: Class Image ... Oscar-class nuclear cruise missile submarine; ... Landing ship. Alligator-class landing ship ...
Only shipindex pages should be included in this category. Individual ships (including those that are the only one to bear the name) should instead be categorised in Category:Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy or Category:Ships of the Soviet Navy or Category:Ships of the Russian Navy or the relevant subcategory for the type of vessel.