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Friday, May 21, 2010

Russia considers buying back missile cruiser Ukraina

Slava class Admiral Lobov cruiserThe Russian and Ukrainian presidents have agreed that Russia will help Ukraine complete the building of the guided missile cruiser Ukraina, which has been docked unfinished at the Nikolayev (Mykolaiv) shipyard in Ukraine.

The question right now is, what fate does the future hold for this cruiser, the last commissioned unit of a class of warships known as Project 1164, and, in particular, who will the ship ultimately belong to?

The fourth Project 1164 class cruiser (the class is also referred to as Slava, by the name of its initial ship) was laid down in 1984 as Admiral Lobov. Under the project, its missiles were designed for use against high-survivability warships accompanied by auxiliary vessels with air and missile defense weapons systems.

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