Soviet Rocket Cruiser Remakes

Just as long as we don't have to wait another year!

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Not a year this time...

Indeed, this is the final chapter of this thread.

While the ASW orientation took toll of most of the materialised Soviet heavy tonnage construction after the original Pr.1134 class, the RKR concept still remained in slow progress that took time to field not only the direct successor of P-35 missiles, the Bazalt, but up to a third generation of long range SSMs, and into the Granit system. The Orlan, or Project 1144 begun to materialise in the early 70's, when the roles and functions it was designed for begun to dictate a quite large size, with the nuclear propulsion and the new weaponsystems of both Rift SAM and the Granit SSM, both launched beneath the weather deck from VLS silos, which was brand new naval philosophy of its time. The large size naturally allowed strong secondary function for ASW, and the ships were planned to field the Rastub ASW weapon system, as well as the new (and huge) Polymon sonar. The lead ship was named as Kirov, in honor of the First soviet build cruiser, and its appereance indeed greated a huge impact on naval circles, for a fame that continues today, making the pr.1144 class as one of the most famous warship classes of all time.

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Kirov was a sole examble of the 1144 san sufix class, the advance of weapon and eletronic systems that took Place in the 1980's strong naval build up was clearly marked upon her follow on's

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Frunze featured new Main gun suite in form of AK-130 and it dispensed the Rastub system for possible future capacity to field the Kinzhal close range SAM suite

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Kalinin differed from Frunze By replacing the OSA-MA and AK-630 with the Kortik Missile/gun CIWIS suite and Kinzhal in theory, but it still featured the OSA-M missile system.

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Only Pyort Velikyi, originally launched as Yuri Andropov, featured the almost full new close in defense suite with the Kinzhal and Kortik, though the front placed kinzhals were never build and the Place reserved for them was build as command suites

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Harrumph! Well, you made us wait five months...

Only kidding!
You've certainly made an excellent redux here, compared to the last version these are probably about 70% better overall and the previous versions were impressive enough.
This is shipbucket at its best and these famous ships have certainly been given the Golly treatment. The only downside I can see now is that you might encourage a fresh outbreak of Kirovitis kitbash madness!

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Hats off to you. That's impreessive beyond praise.

The ultimate Soviet cruiser wonderfully redraw. Nothing else, the drawings xpeak for themshelves.

Simply EXCELLENT work Golly. Well Done.

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Beautiful as always.

INCREDIBLE work! Looking forward to seeing Admiral Nakhimov back in action in a few years. Always thought this class were beautiful ships.

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