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FORBIN said:

Rare !

2 Kilo a new Improved Kilo/636M and a Kilo/ 877

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if I were you, I would be very careful here: the Polish Ministry of Defense vehemently denies, says

has been in the port!! the source in Polish (I'm not going to translate the commenting part if you know what I mean):

the Victory Parade rehearsal at night (I picked up pictures which interested me most, you can see many more at ):

LOL! here she is, perhaps the luckiest ship in Naval History ... only few experts would've remembered the third in the (unimportant anyway) class of protected cruisers, but ... at later point every kid in Eastern Block had to draw her (I admit I did so with pleasure ... and now they're working 24/7 on her to finish the overhaul until July 16:

LOL!

Mar 2, 2016

Jura said:

... the commissioning date for her (the Admiral Grigorovich): March 11

(let's see when Jane's, NavalToday and navyreco notice

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... and after some fun we were indeed having
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-319#post-392041
the newly commissioned Project 11356 ship, the Admiral Grigorovich (745), left for her homeport, Sevastopol, yesterday (April 29):

my fifth in a row here from the 19th century technology
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-336#post-397365
to very 21st century view:
(comes from the collection showing yet another Victory Parade rehearsal: )

Severodvinsk firing kalibr cruise missile

more than one year ago
Mar 16, 2015

Jura said:

now I found this, sounding rather interesting:

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about the perspectives of Russian diesel-engines production (you can see the pictures inside right now ...

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... and I've been trying to follow how it's going with replacing warships engines (banned Western for previously unavailable Russian engines)
(found out even about "the Chinese connection": https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-325#post-393633)
and hoping some data, not just talking, will become available; very recently

an installation began at Project 21385 lead ship, the Gremyashchy, of diesels from

but no, I haven't seen any data yet (just lauding) except what was in TV news, which wasn't much
EDIT


from what I figured, there're two shafts and four recently modified 16Д49 engines (23+ thousand hp in total); don't know if and how they can run independently

Novator Chief Designer Pavel Kamnev received highest Russian state award in April.
His Kalibr missiles proved to be highly effective in real combat situation.

Hyperwarp said:

Severodvinsk firing kalibr cruise missile

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The more important normaly in service now after 2/3 years of trials


For Klub/Kaliber, SS-N-27/30 family and a big !


A part.

today's picture for those who prefer BVR showing a modernized Mig-31 (МиГ-31БМ) with really long-ranged missiles ... (304 km, almost 189 miles, hit claimed in