These are the Russian ships terrorizing US

Russian cruisers can fight simultaneously against a carrier group purpose and a submarine.

USA has never been able to create a vessel capable of competing with the heavy nuclear missile cruisers of the Kirov project, capable of performing multiple functions and still serve in the Russian Fleet decades, writes the magazine 'National Interest'.

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Project 1144 ships are comparable in terms of size with boats of the First and Second World War. USA and other countries abandoned building vessels of this size due to their high cost and vulnerability, but the Soviet Union decided to create a great cruise that combines the functions of several ships, writes 'National Interest'.

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The result was a boat that can fight against surface ships, subsurface, and submarines. Therefore, the cruise is able to act simultaneously against a carrier group purpose and a submarine.

Despite the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the type 1144 cruises, Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great) continues to serve in the Russian Navy, and even carried out a special operation against pirates off the coast of Somalia.

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In 2019 Piotr Veliki go through a series of repairs and upgrades to enter service of the Russian Navy in 2021. Currently another heavy nuclear missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov the (Admiral Nakhimov), is in a process of repair and retrofitting that, as planned, it will be completed in 2018. The vessel remodeling have a new radar and electronic equipment and installation of vertical launch missiles.

Ships of the Kirov project an impressive platform showing the degree of perfection that reaches the Russian Fleet, summarizes the author.