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Bookmark or Share- Kirov-class battlecruiser - WikipediaThe Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan (Russian: Орлан, lit. 'sea eagle'), is a class of nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) in operation in the world
- Kirov-class cruiser - WikipediaThe Kirov-class (Project 26) cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the late 1930s for the Soviet Navy. After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class.
- Kirov class Battlecruisers (1977-90) - Naval EncyclopediaThe Kirov class missile cruisers were nuclear-powered vessels built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s as Project 1144 Orlan.
- Russia May Mothball Its Kirov-Class Battlecruisers: Here's WhyKirov-class battlecruisers are nuclear powered, using KN-3 nuclear, marine propulsion with two GT3A-688 steam turbines for a whopping 140,000 hp.
- Kirov: Russia Built Nuclear Battlecruisers for 1 Reason OnlyThe Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided-missile battlecruisers, built for the Soviet and later Russian Navy, are the largest and heaviest surface combatants currently in operation.
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