Russia - refloats battleship

This year, the now 40-year-old heavy missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" (battle cruiser), the sister ship of the "Pyotr Velikiy", is to resume its test voyages after a 25-year laytime at the shipyard. This news was published shortly after the commissioning of the second propulsion reactor at Sevmash (Mechanical Engineering Company of the North) in Severodvinsk on the White Sea, behind the Kola Peninsula. Sevmash is the centre for nuclear ship propulsion in Russia. The latest missile and air defence systems, such as launch silos for Kalibr, Onyx and the Tsyklon hypersonic weapon, as well as the Pantsir-M and Fort-M systems, were also installed there. But what sense does this giant ship (Kirov class, 252
metres, 25,000 tonnes) when newly built corvettes of the 1,000-tonne Karakurt and Buyan-M classes and frigates from 2,500 tonnes upwards can carry the same armaments? Flagship, of course! Because the carrier "Kuznetsov" can no longer leave the pier, and a similar refit has been on the agenda for the sister ship "Pyotr Velikiy" for some time.