According to the Russian state procurement portal, the decommissioned nuclear-powered cruiser "Admiral Lazarev" will enter the "30th Shipyard" in August this year for the disintegration of the project will cost 5 billion rubles and be completed in November 2025.
"Admiral Lazarev" is a generation of legendary ships "Frunze", after the collapse of the Soviet Union in order to eliminate the impact of the change to this name, it is the "Kirov class" cruiser No. 2 ship, launched in 1981, in 1985 across the heavy ocean into service into the Soviet Pacific Fleet, its arrival made the Soviet Pacific Fleet greatly increased in strength, especially let the "Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force" feel pressure, its strong combat effectiveness is frightening, so when it is still in service, "Haizi" and the US military often use it as the object of exercises.
This photo military fans all know that in 1985, when the "Frunze" was in service from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Fleet, passing through the East China Sea, the "Chongqing Ship" of the East China Sea Fleet of the People's Navy was ordered to monitor it, during which the "Chongqing" repeatedly squeezed the "Frunze" in internal tests... In the face of the "Chongqing" with a displacement of only 3,600 tons, the 25,000-ton "Frunze" repeatedly made course avoidance, and although Sino-Soviet relations were still tense, they already showed signs of relaxation, and the Soviets did not want to expand this small matter.
The gun muzzle of the A130 ship's A130 ship, the Modern-class destroyer "Meticulous", which escorted the "Frunze", raised its maximum elevation angle, indicating that "our ship is passing harmlessly"... After only 10 years, the four sister ships of the "Meticulous" joined the battle sequence of the East China Sea Fleet of the People's Navy.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the "Frunze" immediately changed the name of the ship, and rarely went to sea to cruise again, but the maintenance of a large nuclear-powered battleship like it cost a lot of money, and Russia at that time really had no money, that is, the money for the salaries of the 760 crew members on the ship could not be taken out, so it had to be retired (sealed) in 1999, and it only served for 14 years from 1985 to 1999, which was a great waste! The problem is that I can't afford to pay for it?
Although there will be dozens of people left to guard it from the perspective of the bridge, the "Frunze" has long been dilapidated from the perspective of the bridge, and by 2004 it dismantled the nuclear reactor in the city of Dameca in the Far Eastern Primorsky Territory, and then it was towed to the dock of the decommissioned ship for storage, during which it also conducted buoyancy tests in 2014... Due to the long-term lack of new large warships, Russia refurbished the large ships left over from the Soviet Navy, conducted a technical assessment of the three "Kirov class" that were sealed, and believed that the 3rd ship "Admiral Nasimov" (Kalinin) was still worth renovating, while the No. 1 ship "Admiral Ushakov" (Kirov) and the 2nd ship "Admiral Lazarev" fell into disrepair and had no longer the value of spending money on renovation, so the "Nasimov" was modified and would be in the future with "Peter the Great" (Andropov) formed the backbone of the Northern Fleet.
Line diagram of the nuclear reactor of the "Kirov-class" cruiser. Although the installation of nuclear reactors allows ships to obtain "unlimited voyages", the operating costs and maintenance costs of nuclear-powered ships are really a huge "gold-devouring beast"! The cost of the Frunze is 3 to 4 times higher than that of the conventionally powered "Glory Class", and although the armament is strong, its combat effectiveness may not exceed that of 3 to 4 "Glory Class" cruisers.
Super battleships such as the "Frunze" can only be afforded by the navies of powerful economic powers, and it is not more effective because of the larger displacement and more weapons and equipment installations, but because the cost of use is too high and the number of missions is lower.
For example, the U.S. Navy's last nuclear-powered cruiser, the Virginia-class, costs between $257 million and $337 million from the first to the fourth, twice as many as the first Burke-class destroyers! And it does not yet have the "Ticonderoga class" displacement is large, in terms of combat effectiveness, one "Virginia class" is obviously inferior to two "Burke class", and the cost of use is too high, almost becoming the "queen of the harbor", while the "Burke class" performs a large number of tasks... As a result, the U.S. Navy abandoned the development of nuclear-powered cruisers altogether.
After 20 years of wind and rain, the "Frunze" has long been dilapidated! It is really not worth unsealing and maintaining.
Nuclear-powered cruisers are the same for Russia and should all be decommissioned, but now Russia cannot build a new type of large warship, and in order to make up for the lack of coastal defense, it has to grit its teeth and continue to maintain the two "prehistoric dinosaurs".
The "Admiral Nasimov" in the maintenance upgrade gives people the feeling of a doomsday lonely ship! Its improvement was to replace the P700 "Granite" anti-ship missile and install a more advanced and smaller P800 "Onyx" anti-ship missile, and the number was also increased from 20 to 48 (one said to be 80 universal launchers, which can launch "Zircon" and "caliber" missiles); the anti-aircraft missile launcher was not replaced, but the anti-aircraft missile was upgraded to 40N6E, the range was increased to 150 kilometers, and other shipboard electronic equipment was also replaced, and it is said that the active phased array radar on the 22350 frigate was installed. After all the upgrades are completed, the combat effectiveness of the "Nasimov" will be greatly improved, and it can serve for another 20 years.
In front of the "Kirov" to launch the hunting flag, the momentum of the "Glory Class" was immediately shortened by half! It also highlights the oppressive aesthetic of violence of the "Kirov class".
Nuclear-powered cruisers have no future, but the Russian Navy lacks ocean-going warships and can no longer use them, and who wants to use them with new warships of the 21st century?
The so-called "century-old navy" is the same as sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat! Huge investments by powerful countries are needed to sustain them, or within 10 years they will fall behind as a whole, shrinking from global navies to regional navies, as in both Britain and Russia.
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