Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The Kirov-class battlecruisers, initially designed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s to sink U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and hunt American submarines, have ...

If the centerpiece of the United States Navy’s offensive strategy was the aircraft carrier, since the Cold War era, the Russian Navy’s main offensive system was their battlecruiser. Heavily armed, ...

Key Points and Summary - The Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser was conceived as a nuclear-powered, prestige flagship built to stalk U.S. carrier groups and survive brutal surface combat. -Bristling ...

Russia's Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruisers are among the world's most imposing ships. The Kirovs' fortunes fell along with the Soviet Union, but Russia has invested in upgrading them. See ...

Russia's navy has had limited involvement in the war in Ukraine. But the war may be affecting Russia's plans to modernize and upgrade its navy. Ongoing problems with the Russian navy's biggest ...