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Russia's Sevmash Shipyard Renewing Kirov Class Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov Hull Structures - TASS.
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File picture: Aerial starboard quarter view of the Russian Northern Fleet Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (CGN-080) underway. |
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contract is expected to be signed in 2016 to deliver new equipment for
the Project 11442M cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. Works are planned
to be conducted to prepare the vessel for installing the equipment. In
2015, the Sevmash Shipyard fully dismantled obsolete equipment on the
Project 11442M cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. During its upgrade, the cruiser will be armed with the Kalibr cruise missile system and S-400 surface to air missiles (48N6DM AAGM). The Kirov-class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, known as the Kalinin until 1992, was commissioned in 1989 and mothballed in 1999. It has since been docked for upgrades at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk, on the White Sea. Sevmash deputy head Sergei Marichev said in a statement in June 2013 that the Admiral Nakhimov would become the most advanced heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser in the Russian Navy. A press release at the time mentionned that the vessel should rejoin the fleet in 2018. Originally four Kirov-class cruisers were built for the Soviet Navy. As of today only one vessel, the Pyotr Velikiy, is still operational. Russia initially planned to return two other Kirov-class vessels to service (in addition to Admiral Nakhilov) after several years of disuse. However, it was later indicated that the condition of the reactor cores of both ships was such that it would prove difficult, expensive and potentially dangerous to remove the spent nuclear fuel and repair the cores. © Copyright 2015 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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