The Admiral Nachimow (until 1992 Kalinin ) is a cruiser of Project 1144.2 in the Russian Navy . The ship was built for the Soviet Navy during the Cold War . After about 10 years in service, it was decommissioned in 1999 and finally slated for a major modernization that is expected to last until 2021.
modernization
In 2012, around 15 years after the ship was decommissioned, Admiral Nakhimov was transferred from the inactive semi-trailer status (i.e. the ship had been preserved) to the repair relationship. A comprehensive modernization of the type Project 1144 to Project 1144M began, which should be completed in 2018. Russian military experts had already puzzled at the beginning of the measure where to get the highly qualified personnel to man the ship. The cost of modernization was estimated at up to 1.24 billion euros in 2012.
The conversion will be carried out in the Sewmasch shipyard . Among other things, the launch tubes for the P-700 granite guided weapons were removed from the ship's hull. Instead of these, ten vertical take-off systems for missiles of the 3S14 type are to be installed. Total should be as up to 80 missiles of the type Cal , Oniks and Tsirkon can be carried. Since the deadline for the announced recommissioning in 2018 could not be kept due to delays, the renewed commissioning is now (as of 2018) not expected until 2021.
Individual evidence
↑ Joachim Krause, Sebastian Bruns: Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security Routledge, 2016, ISBN 9781315732572
^ Edward Hampshire: Soviet Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers , 2016, ISBN 978-1-4728-1740-2 , p. 45
