Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The Kirov-class battlecruisers, initially designed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s to sink U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and hunt American submarines, have ...

What You Need to Know: Despite earlier speculation that the Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov would never sail again, the Russian Navy has announced plans for the warship to begin factory ...

The Russian Navy isn't exactly the biggest and baddest around — the country only has one aircraft carrier, and it's not functional, after all. Since the country invaded Ukraine in 2022, its Black Sea ...

Kirov-Class Battlecruisers: Soviet Ambition, Russian Reality The Kirov-class—known in Russia as Project 1144 Orlan—emerged from a very specific late–Cold War vision. Soviet naval strategists sought ...