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Russian Navy nuclear powered missile cruiser Petr Velikiy reaches Mediterranean
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After entering the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar, the
Russian nuclear-powered missile-carrying cruiser Petr Velikiy, or Peter
the Great, has cast anchor in the Alboran Sea. The crew used its 11-day,
3.2-thousand-mile voyage from the ship’s home base of Severomorsk
on the Barents Sea to practice air and anti-submarine defense operations.
The cruiser’s mission is part of Russia’s plans to resume
its naval presence in strategic areas.
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Petr Velikiy (Peter the Great) heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser
(TARKR), the fourth Kirov class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy, Picture:
Ria Novosti
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Petr
Velikiy is the fourth Kirov class battlecruiser, a class of nuclear-powered
warship of the Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant
warships after aircraft carriers currently in active operation in the
world.
The Kirov class's main weapons are 20 P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck)
missiles mounted in deck, designed to engage large surface targets.
Air defense is provided by twelve octuple S-300F launchers with 96 missiles
and a pair of Osa-MA batteries with 20 missiles each. Pyotr Velikiy
carries some S-300FM missiles and is the only ship in the Russian Navy
capable of ballistic missile defence.
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