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At its peak in the 1980s, the Soviet Red Navy was well positioned to fight the U.S. Navy worldwide. Although the U.S. Navy has always had an absolute advantage in aircraft carriers, the Soviet Red Navy at that time not only gradually moved onto the right track in the development of aircraft carriers (4 Kiev-class heavy carrier cruisers have been in service one after another), but also had an unparalleled advantage over the U.S. Navy in nuclear submarine equipment, nearly 70 ballistic missile nuclear submarines are specifically responsible for sea-based strategic nuclear deterrence against the United States, cruise missile nuclear submarines are specifically responsible for carrying anti-ship cruise missiles against U.S. aircraft carriers. In addition to this, they also have a large number of attack nuclear submarines.
It is also worth mentioning that the Soviet Red Navy in the 1980s also took a very important step in building its main surface combat ship, and its landmark event was the commissioning of three Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers. The cruiser is so far very rare, in the anti-submarine, air defense and anti-ship have a strong surface ship with a three-layer fire network of far, medium and near, is a typical arsenal ship, the number of missiles carried by the whole ship reached more than 500, because the firepower of this nuclear-powered cruiser is too strong, so at that time western countries generally called the cruiser a battlecruiser.
However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian shipbuilding industry immediately suffered a near-devastating blow, they not only lost direct financial support from Moscow, could not build more new types of main battleships, the Russian Naval Federation wanted to maintain the size of the fleet has been unable to do, a large number of elite ships were sent to the shipbreaking yard for local dismantling, in addition to many ships forced to seal and repair, repair, the Russians found themselves are really shy, can not afford to repair, Later, it is inevitable to be dismantled.
This has to mention the three Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers, which, originally after entering the 21st century, Russia's economic situation improved slightly, and they wanted to upgrade and overhaul these three Kirov-class cruisers to return them to the Russian Navy. Admiral Ushakov and Admiral Nakhimov were both located at the Severodvinsk Shipyard, while the cruiser, originally named Frunze and later renamed Admiral Lazaev, was sent to The now nearly abandoned base of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Volkino.
After the Crimean crisis in 2014, Russia's economy was hit hard again, and they had to interrupt plans to upgrade all three Kirov-class cruisers, focusing all their efforts on the maintenance and upgrading of Admiral Nasimov, and the remaining two cruisers were finally decided to be completely dismantled. Not long ago, the cruiser Admiral Lazaev had been sent to the thirtieth shipyard in the Far East, and the Russians had been building ships at the same speed as a turtle crawling in the past 30 years, but the speed of dismantling ships was very fast, and it did not take long for the superstructure of the once dominant missile cruiser Frunze to be basically demolished, and the dense radar system and weapon system had become a pile of scrap iron.
Now Russia's military expenditure is not even as large as its own main supplier country India, has already fallen out of the world's top 5 industries, and the future of Russia's economy almost can not see any hope of improvement, under the double blow of the new crown epidemic and Western sanctions, Russia does not have any opportunity to improve its economic structure, Russia's foreign exchange sources are mainly two, either selling arms or selling oil and gas, this extremely single export structure is very easy to affect, That's why we can see that Russia's main currency, the ruble, is oscillating quite quickly.
After the dismantling of the two cruisers Admiral Lazarev and Admiral Ushakov, the Russian Navy will have to rely on the Peter the Great, which is in service, and Admiral Nasimov, who has completed the upgrade, for a long time to come. It is also worth mentioning that the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy, Admiral Kuznetsov, when will it be able to return to the service of the Northern Fleet sequence seems to be far away, as the saying goes, ship transport is national transport, this sentence can be said to be vividly embodied in Russia. Today's Russian Navy is working to improve its fleet structure and strategy, and in the future they will rely on ships of the class of type 22350 frigates as the main force, while retaining a considerable nuclear submarine force to maintain their strategic deterrent. If you have any interesting insights, please feel free to leave a message below to discuss! (This article is Uncle Yi said the world series, interested friends, please use WeChat to search for the public number: the situation emperor, watch all the original articles of the Uncle Yi said the world series)