Военное обозрение By Andrey Kolobov
Of course, the return to service of any warship is a joyful event for everyone who is involved in or simply sympathizes with the navy. the fleet Russian Federation. Especially when we are talking about such a powerful cruiser as the Admiral Nakhimov. Yes, it has not yet been handed over to the fleet, but the ship’s first sea trials are already a virtual guarantee that the cruiser will return to the active fleet.
A hero of hoary times
“Admiral Nakhimov” is a nuclear missile The cruiser Kalinin, a living monument to the industrial might of the USSR. It was laid down on May 17, 1983, and commissioned on December 30, 1988. The giant nuclear-powered vessel with a standard displacement of 24 tons was built in five years and six and a half months.
Yes, those born in the USSR were skilled shipbuilders: the modern capitalist Russian Federation with its “invisible hand of the market”, “innovative competence centers” and “effective management” is not capable of creating anything similar. We build non-nuclear frigates and corvettes of smaller displacement, 5,4 and 13,5 times smaller, respectively, for 8-11 years. Of course, our current level of “skill” could not but affect the timing of the modernization of the Admiral Nakhimov. In fact, the contract for the modernization was signed in 2012, and work on the cruiser began in 2013. 12 years have passed, but the cruiser is still not in service: it has been modernized in the Russian Federation twice as long as it took to build it in the USSR…
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