Upgraded Kirov class: Project 11442 [Admiral Nakhimov]

hoom wrote:The sonar bit was interesting to hear a US sub guy not wanting to be anywhere near it, didn't realise K has it too.

But the rest is either nothing new, severely outdated or outright wrong.

hoom wrote:
But the rest is either nothing new, severely outdated or outright wrong.

MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/. The Project 1144 2M (Orlan-class) heavy nuclear-powered missile-carrying cruiser Admiral Nakhimov undergoing its repairs and upgrade at the Sevmash Shipyard in Russia’s northwest will enter sea trials in 2023, Deputy CEO of the United Shipbuilding Corporation for Military Shipbuilding Vladimir Korolyov told TASS on Thursday.

"We can say that our work is proceeding on schedule… I believe that the cruiser will enter trials in 2023," the deputy chief executive said in response to a question about the timeframe of completing the work on the Admiral Nakhimov.

In the course of upgrading the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, the shipbuilders have to deal with a lot of issues related to the warship’s powerplant, its weapons and radio-electronic armament. Specialists are carrying out a large amount of work on the cruiser’s missile systems, he said.

The pace of work on the Admiral Nakhimov vividly demonstrates that the Sevmash shipbuilders can both construct nuclear-powered underwater missile carriers and restore the technical readiness of such unique warships as Project 1144 Orlan-class heavy nuclear-powered cruisers, the deputy chief of the United Shipbuilding Corporation said.

The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov has been under repairs at the Sevmash Shipyard since 1999. Real work on the warship has been carried out since 2013. It was earlier reported that the heavy missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov would enter trials in 2021.

The upgrade has substantially boosted the cruiser’s strike capabilities. In particular, the warship will carry 10 versatile shipborne launchers for eight Kalibr-NK or Oniks cruise missiles. Eventually, the Admiral Nakhimov will carry Tsirkon hypersonic missiles.

Probably BS in my opinion.

What was news to me from the Combat Approved video is the land attack capability of the Granits.

lancelot wrote:I think upgrading one of them was a good idea since this was an excuse to digitize all the data on the ship and get the subcontractors on the systems to work again.
The second one should take a lot less time to refurbish since it is repeating the same thing again.

lancelot wrote:I think upgrading one of them was a good idea since this was an excuse to digitize all the data on the ship and get the subcontractors on the systems to work again.
The second one should take a lot less time to refurbish since it is repeating the same thing again.

Arkanghelsk wrote:2 kirov is enough with modernized VLS.

3m22 on half of the 80 cells, and kalibr with different modifications including anti sub and anti shipping variants make it deadly.

Then theres over 100 cells of redut.

This ship is a beast, and can fight 2 or 3 CBG on it's own with Zircon crippling world navy.

Its like the return of the battleship with hypersonics

Isos wrote:
One sub can destroy it if it is manned very well.
The super hardware that fight ab entire army by itself doesn't exist.