Upgraded Kirov class: Project 11442 [Admiral Nakhimov]

OSA and S-300 would still be able to shoot down subsonic missiles of the type the Ukraine had...

I personally think it might have launched an S-300 SAM whose main rocket motor might have failed to fire and it dropped back onto the deck and burned and started an internal fire that the fire fighting equipment on board was unable to deal with.

HMG mounts and just sailors with small arms can put up a lot of tracer ammo to scare away manned speed boats or attack aircraft, or just hit and destroy small surface targets like floating mines or surface drones.

There was even talk of using supercavitating rounds from the 30mm gatlings to shoot into the water a few metres deep to destroy incoming enemy torpedoes.

Older ships the size of Moskva have enormous potential for carrying and operating their own drones too... there is no reason to say a drone swarm can't be dealt with using large calibre HE rounds like a 152mm airburst round set to explode amongst the enemy swarm, and of course your own drones going out to knock enemy drones down too.

Even EMP shells could be used, and of course on a large ship there is space and power and cooling potential for lasers and radar jammers... a drone swarm rendered blind is not effective either.

Crazy numbers:
The source said that the cost of repairing "Admiral Nakhimov" exceeded 200 billion rubles.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/18573155

Starting price was 150 billion - so after all those years - not so bad

During last 5 years average rate is about 70-75 rubles for a dollar. So it is over 2.5 billion USD for quoted number.

It is a shitload of money yes, but considering that the Nikhamov is for all practical purposes a brand new ship. Not only that - it is the most powerful combat ship in naval history by far. Now consider the British QE carriers at about 4 billion GBP each - the Nakhimov now seems like a bargain!

Mir wrote:It is a shitload of money yes, but considering that the Nikhamov is for all practical purposes a brand new ship. Not only that - it is the most powerful combat ship in naval history by far. Now consider the British QE carriers at about 4 billion GBP each - the Nakhimov now seems like a bargain!  

I have to agree, it is not expensive for the most powerful surface combatant in the world, by far...

If this 200 billion figure is true then its almost certain that PtG will not be upgraded.

It was posted a few pages back but here's the Combat Approved episode on the Nakhimov. So few pictures get posted of the ship. You have to watch this to get re acquainted with it

Boys, Am I mistaken or do we have a new photo of the construction site on G Maps?

Nikhamov's reactors are be fired up somewhere in November 2023

https://charly015.blogspot.com/2020/09/sobre-la-modernizacion-del-nakimov.html
https://twitter.com/charly0153/status/1710933410623951236

Looks very similar to the MR-650 Podberezovik radar fitted on Marshal Ustinov and Kerch cruisers. Should have a useful detection range of around 500-600 km.