From SD's own NavyReco:
NavyRecognition said:
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.
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.
The Petr Velikiy is perhaps the most heavily armed surface combatant in the world. In addition to her main battery of 20 large and very dangerous ant-shipping missiles, she has a very capable and sophisticated, layered anti-air defense system trhat is capable of wide area coverage, even BMD defense. That multi-layered system consitis of a total of 456 missiles that are on the vessel. She has been modernized and her sensors and weapons systems should be viewed as state of the art for Russian vessels. Her sister Kirov battlecruisers, at least two of them, will be going through multiple year refits to mordernize them in a similar fashion.
Her presence in the Mediterranean sends a strong mesage to the international community. Here are her very impressive specifications:
Displacement: 28,000 tons Full Load
Length: 827 ft
Beam: 94 ft
Draft: 30 ft
Propulsion: Nuclear propulsion with steam turbine boost, 140,000 shp, 2 shafts
Speed: 32 knots
Complement: 727
Aircrew: 18
Flag staff: 15
Sensors: ·
- Voskhod MR-800 (Top Pair) 3D search radar on foremast
- Fregat MR-710 (Top Steer) 3D search radar on main mast
- 2 × Palm Frond navigation radar on foremast
- 2 × Top Dome for SA-N-6 fire control
- 4 × Bass Tilt for AK-360 CIWS System fire control
- 2 × Eye Bowl for SA-N-4 fire control
- Horse Jaw LF hull sonar
- Horse Tail VDS (Variable Depth Sonar)
Armament:
- 20 P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) anti-ship missiles
- 16 x 8 (128) 3K95 "Kinzhal" (SA-N-9) surface-to-air missiles
- 12 x 8 (96) S-300PMU Favorit (SA-N-6 Grumble) surface-to-air missiles
- 06 x Kashtan (CADS-N-1) point defense system. Eash Kashtan has:
---- 8 x 9M311-1E SAMs with 24 auto reloads
---- 2 x 30mm Auto Cannons
- 44 x OSA-MA (SA-N-4 Gecko) PD SAM
- 02 x RBU-1000 (Smerch-3) 305 mm ASW rocket launchers
- 02 x RBU-12000 (Udav-1) 254 mm ASW rocket launchers
- 01 x twin AK-130 130 mm/L70 dual purpose gun
- 10 x 533 mm ASW/ASuW torpedo tubes, Type 53 torpedo or SS-N-15 ASW missile
Aircraft carried:
- 3 x Kamov Ka-27 "Helix" or Ka-25 "Hormone" ASW helicopters
