Kirov Heavy Nuclear Battlecruiser Ship Brief

At 11:53 the Aluminum-Magnesium superstructure is mentioned. I believe the jargon "Aluminum-Magnesium" refers to an alloy of 95% aluminum, 4% magnesium, and 1% other elements. Wikipedia states this composition resists corrosion in a seawater environment for marine use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5083_aluminium_alloy

being a russian sailor seems very dangerous theres always talk of reactors melting down or big fires

Battlestar Kirov - she should be patrolling an asteroid belt, off the shoulder of Orion preferably...

Lucid Nonsense

Ahem, the 47000 ton Iowa Class would like a word with you.

Hey Jive, Thanks for the promotion! I'm now a Chief Petty Officer, that's awesome!

Chronus

Only the Russians could build a ship like this. She looks like something that escaped from a fantasy warship discussion board on the internet somewhere. All that's missing are some 16" gun turrets!

Adam Snook

This is purely speculation, but it seems to me that they cannot effectively send one of the remaining Kirov class to the Pacific. In order to keep a Kirov class deployed continuously, they would need three of them. As Aaron has mentioned before, and it's a good rule of thumb; you need three hulls for every job you have to do. Between maintenance, refit, overhaul, testing, trials and training, most ships will spend about 2/3 of their lives effectively offline. The Russians should decide wisely in which theater to deploy these two.

I heard there's going to be and armament of: 80 UKSK VLS cells, 90-96 VLS cells for s400/500 amd x amount of redut cells

Hierachy 1871

flight path.

Aaron Amick

Check out this vid on the Kirov, shows some great action shots: https://youtu.be/ri5rI6ZYacg

Daniel Rajaram

Different flight profile, duh.

Ivan

Russian navy has the zircon hypersonic anti-ship missle, there is speculation that that can be equipped next to the oinks missles in the upgraded modernization

Daniel Rajaram

9:00 "Launched 1977...commissioned 1988 (says 1980 on the slide)" *face palm* this is why you have to run the narration and not just the slides past us before launch. Or maybe get Mrs. Jive Turkey to give it a listen.

Andrew MacDougall

How come land attack mode was about 500 while anti ship mode was around 300?