Thread 64137432

Kirov Reporting

Please ignore the rust

>Heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" of project 11442M went on sea trials

>The Admiral Nakhimov Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov has gone to sea for factory sea trials after repairs and deep modernization. A source in the shipbuilding industry told TASS.
shipbuilding industry.

>Earlier, VTB CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of OSK Andrei Kostin informed President Vladimir Putin that the repair of the heavy nuclear cruiser Admiral Nakhimov has been completed and the ship is ready for sea trials.

>Photos of the nuclear-powered cruiser going out to the White Sea appeared in social networks. This is the first time the ship has been at sea since 1997.

https://paluba.media/news/198961

>nuclear powered
>surrounded by tugboats

>>64137467
Big ships usually need tugs.

Heavy cruiser Moskva reporting

>>64137432 (OP)
I think the Kirov class is fucking cool and based. The greatest tragedy is that it/they are doomed to be forever in Russian hands.

>>64137432 (OP)
The shitstains are a great bit of characterization.

>>64137432 (OP)
IT'S A MIRACLE

the dual propulsion (nuke and diesel) seems like a huge maintenance burden idk

>>64137432 (OP)
she does look good, i have to say

>>64137432 (OP)
The prettiest big boat there ever was

>>64137432 (OP)
when are the ukrainian fish-human hybrid supersoldiers going to sink it? do you think it will last until the end of the year?

>>64137797
Except for all the other ships that have been built

>>64137535
>doomed to be forever in Russian hands.
Don't worry, it will be a short forever, followed by a long rusting/underwater period

>>64137754
>looks good
>still full of rust after being repaired

>>64137828
A fresh batch of Boris clones are being bred as we speak.

>>64137690
Yeah but its not a good miracle, more like one of those not something you want miracles

>>64137836
Except she's prettier

>>64138040
If you don't include every other ship that's ever been built

>>64138046
I bet you like fat American uggos.

>>64137432 (OP)
They could've probably built a few modern subs for all the money spent keeping that pile of rust afloat.
Probably even more of a sensless waste then the aircraft carrier.

>>64138049
Strange way to say "ships that manage to move under their own power, look good, and can actually perform the mission they were built for". None of which that barely floating environmental disaster waiting to happen can do.

>>64138079
>look good
Yikes

>>64137432 (OP)
>MFW a country with no navy is about to destroy 2 flagships in 1 war
Has there ever been such a feat before?

>>64137432 (OP)
>returns to underwater under its own power

>>64138120
We've already established you have poor taste, and the eyesight of Ray Charles, you don't need to double down on it

>>64138361
You'd have posted a pretty American ship if you thought they existed.

>28 year refit
what's the point? There's only two ships in the class left anymore

>>64138380

It's fit for another century of duty

>>64137432 (OP)
If the Ukies somehow sink this thing, Der Monke has to call off the war, right? There's simply no way to come back from that. How do you possibly go on with your military that demoralized at that point?

>>64138373
We'd hit image limit long before I ran out

>>64137432 (OP)
pro-Ukie /bant/ thread is dying
>>>/bant/23132319

>>64138403
in port

>>64138403
>another century of duty
it was afloat for only a decade before going in for a nearly 30 year refit, they'll need 300 years this time

Ukraine LOST

>>64137828
>fish-human hybrid supersoldiers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Shark_(novel)

>>64138414
If they sink it Russia will threaten to use nuclear weapons, and the world will understand the eggs are in the ass.

>>64137437
>has been in refit since before most of the crew were born

If we cut it open, what horrors will we discover within?

And there's also a video

https://x.com/Capt_Navy/status/1957483349141860683

>>64137432 (OP)
I love big boats so goddamn much

>>64138531
just look at it

>>64138541
Finally, some decent looking ships

>>64137471
>peter the great
Why did the soviets name a ship after a monarch?

>>64138570
Russians renamed it. Previously, it was named after Yuri Andropov.

what's the usecase for a kirov? seems really overkill in terms of armaments, also feature creep.

>>64137754
>>64138040
russian ships are male

>>64139029
fucking homos

>>64139033
yeah but consider that female ships are whores
they're always full of seamen

>>64137432 (OP)
pic very relevant

>>64139045
then male ships are just gay whores, its a whore a piece but one is gay

>>64139074
you don't have balls?

>>64139093
Are your balls gay?

>>64138502
>>64138516
>editing out the Deep One hybrid that's on deck at the beginning of the vid

>>64137734
It's fucking dumb too, a fucking endurance limit (at 30kt) on nuclear.
Why couldn't they just make the reactor bigger instead of adding diesel?

>>64139503
Russians and good ideas are like oil and water

>>64139503
The Soviets never got shipborne nuclear reactors to work correctly/safely to begin with. The designers knew that ships like the Kirov needed a backup in case its reactor quit and died

>>64139729
It makes me think that the soviets were just eager to have what the west had without putting their technological deficiencies into consideration and brute-force their way to a shoddy end product.
>comrade our engines are not sufficient for vtol
>smekalka will prevail comrade
>adding 2 tiny engines just for one thing and dead-weight otherwise

>>64138164
This is the same country that lost a naval engagement to Czechoslovakia in their own territory

>>64139771
>adding 2 tiny engines just for one thing and dead-weight otherwise
That was common in SVTOL designs save for the harrier, XV12, and much later the F-35 which still has some sort of propulsion stuck behind the cockpit