Russian battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov

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Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов) is the third and modernized Project 1144 Orlan (NATO reporting name Kirov-class) battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. The ship was originally part of the Soviet Navy as Kalinin (Russian: Калинин), until it was renamed in 1992 after Pavel Nakhimov. Officially it is designated as a "heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser", but due to being the largest surface warship in service besides aircraft carriers, the Kirov class is often called a "battlecruiser" (not to be confused for the battlecruisers of the 1910s). It was laid down on 17 May 1983 at the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, launched on 25 April 1986, and commissioned on 30 December 1988. The Kirov-class battlecruisers were developed to counter NATO submarines and carrier strike groups. Admiral Nakhimov has a large armament that originally included P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles, S-300F surface-to-air missiles, 4K33 Osa-M surface-to-air missiles, and several anti-submarine missile launchers. It...

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