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Sunday, September 09, 2012

Nuclear-powered cruisers' upgrade: when economy is pointless

Kirov Class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser |20125 billion roubles have been allocated for the modernization of the Admiral Nakhimov cruiser. What capabilities will the updated ship acquire and are these expenses going to be justified in response to the shortage of new generation fighting ships?

Talks about modernization of Admiral Nakhimov and other battlecruisers of Project 1144, withdrawn from the combat-ready forces of the fleet in the 90s, have been circulating for a very long time, but due to a lack of funds they had virtually no real implementation.

In the second half of the 2000s, the government started financing the armed forces, and this spurred discussions concerning the retired cruisers' return to the ranks. Naturally, the question of their role in the overall structure of the Navy immediately arose.

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