What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy’s decision not to modernize the Pyotr Veliky, one of two remaining Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruisers, underscores the vessel's diminishing value.

The Specifications on the Kirov-Class The Kirov-class battlecruiser displaces 24,300 tons (standard and a total of 28,000 tons when fully loaded.The length is 252 meters (827 feet). Its beam is 28 ...

It's easy to see why nuclear power is suitable for ships, as reactors generate a lot of power for their size, compared to ...

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 ...

As part of the increasingly belligerent recent Kremlin plan to revitalize the rusting Russian Navy, ship builders have been hard at work bringing a second Kirov class battlecruiser, the Admiral ...

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

The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, which starved Russian shipyards of funding and forced the navy to lay up three of its four Kirov-class battlecruisers, still is wreaking havoc on fleet planning.

The nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers were developed in the late 1970s and still rank among the world’s largest surface combat ships. Today, only one of the four Kirov-class ships ...

The Russian Kirov-class battlecruiser, Pyotr Velikiy, leaves for St Petersburg to take part in a ship parade marking Russian Navy Day. Lev Fedoseyev/TASS (Photo by Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Imag ...

Yevgeny Kuklychev is Newsweek's London-based Senior Editor for Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He previously headed Newsweek's Misinformation Watch and Newsweek Fact Check. Yevgeny focuses on ...

The Specifications on the Kirov-Class The Kirov-class battlecruiser displaces 24,300 tons (standard and a total of 28,000 tons when fully loaded.The length is 252 meters (827 feet). Its beam is 28 ...