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The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan (Russian: Орлан, lit. 'sea eagle'), is a class of nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) in operation in the world.
Kirov is the lead ship of the Kirov class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers.Originally built for the Soviet Navy and passed onto the succeeding Russian Navy, she and her three sister ships are the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) built by them.
1 Kirov-class battlecruiser. 2 Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) ... Status: 2 in service, 1 sunk, 1 incomplete, 6 cancelled; Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser
With the possible exception of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, no Russian warships are as imposing as the Kirov-class battlecruisers. Why the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered cruisers ...
Currently, only the navies of Russia and the United States operate modern vessels classified as cruisers.Russia currently has seven, one (Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev) is afloat but has been inoperative for years and another that only nominally in commission and has not put to sea since 1991 (Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Ushakov).
The Kirov-class (Project 26) cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the late 1930s for the Soviet Navy.After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class.
2 in reserve, 2 scrapped, 1 sunk United States Navy: Kirov class: 4: Battlecruiser: 252 m (827 ft) 28,000: 1 in service, 1 in refit, 2 scrapped Russian Navy: Yorktown class: 3: Aircraft carrier: 251.38 m (824.7 ft) 25,500: 2 sunk, 1 scrapped United States Navy: Bismarck class: 2: Battleship: 251 m (823 ft) 52,600: Sunk in 1941 and 1944 ...
The British and German battlecruisers were used extensively during World War I between 1914 and 1918, including in the Battles of Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, and most famously in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May and 1 June 1916, where one German and three British battlecruisers were sunk. [9]