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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Russia's Kirov Class Battle Cruiser Is Giant, Mean, And Armed To Hell

Kirov Class Battle CruiserThe USA dominates the seas when it comes to its massive nuclear powered aircraft carriers and lumbering amphibious assault ships, but Russia takes the prize for the largest and most heavily armed surface combatant, the mighty Kirov Class Battle Cruiser.

Designated by the west as "Battle Cruisers" as their size and armament puts them somewhere between a Battleship and a heavy cruiser, these bristling relics of the Cold War are so menacing that they were one of the main reasons why America's Iowa Class Battleships were brought back into service by the Reagan Administration.

Russia currently has just one out of the four of these 827 foot long monsters that were built in active duty service, that being the Peter The Great, which is also the flagship of Russia's Northern Fleet.

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