Heavy atomic rocket cruisers of projects 1144 and 1144.2 are the “business card” not only the Northern Design Bureau (PKB), but also the Navy (Navy) of Russia, said TASS CEO of the enterprise Andrei Dyachkov.
According to the head, during the modernization of “Admiral Nakhimov”, also called the “peculiar symbol” of the Northern PCB and the Navy of Russia, received “the most modern weapon, which makes it the strongest combat surface ship of the world.” “It was noted more than once in their reports and ratings and foreign experts,” the general director assures.
According to Dyachkov, the frigates of the project 22350, to which, in particular, the head ship “Admiral Gorshkov”, “must be the basis of the surface groups of the fleet of Russia.” According to the head of the Northern PCB, “those ships, which today are built here, will have, unlike the head frigate, a fully domestic main power plant.”
In April, The National Interest said that “Admiral Nakhimov” may be “resting with the world.” To the conclusions about the “death” of the cruiser, who in August 2020 Forbes was named potentially the most powerful surface-in-law unavianeous military ship in the world, in the publication came, analyzing the delays in the hand of the cruiser to the Russian fleet.