Hooray for old technology that could still be repaired with steel tools! After almost three decades out of service in the roadstead and a further decade in the shipyard for refitting, the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" (type ship of the Kirov class, 250 metres, 27,000 tonnes), which was laid down in Saint Petersburg in 1983, set off on test runs from Murmansk. The battleship only sailed for ten active years until 1997, when a disintegrating Soviet Union ran out of financial resources and only the much younger sister ship "Pyotr Velikiy" continued to be operated. With the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "Nakhimov" was to be revitalised for 1.2 billion euros and equipped with the latest Zircon, Kalibr and Oniks missile systems by 2021. This has now taken a little longer. However, as the sister ship is now due for an urgent technical and propulsion overhaul, or perhaps rather decommissioning, and further repairs to the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" can also be ruled out, the "Nakhimov", with "new wine in old bottles" and its crew of 700, is set for a brilliant time as the flagship of the Russian Federation Navy.