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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.
The Kirov-class (Project 26 ... this provided a maximum range of around 38,000 m (42,000 ... but the destroyer leader Moskva was sunk by a mine and Kharkov was ...
1 Kirov-class battlecruiser. 2 Slava-class ... Range: 1000 nmi at 32 knots, unlimited at 20 knots on nuclear power ... Status: 2 in service, 1 sunk, 1 incomplete, 6 ...
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.
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Sunk as target 1952 Kirov: Kirov-class cruiser: 1938 1938-1974 Scrapped in 1974 Voroshilov: Kirov-class cruiser: 1940 1940-1973 Scrapped 1973 Maxim Gorky: Kirov-class cruiser: 1940 1940-1959 Scrapped 1959 Molotov: Kirov-class cruiser: 1941 1941-1972 Scrapped 1972 Kaganovich: Kirov-class cruiser: 1944 1944-1960 Scrapped 1960 Kalinin: Kirov-class ...
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).
Kirov class (Project 26 and 26-bis) (6 units). These cruisers were classified as light, but possessed 7-inch main calibre (making them heavy cruisers under the original definition of a heavy cruiser as a ship no more than 10,000 long tons with a main battery of more than 6.1-inch (155mm) but no more than 8-inch (203.4mm))