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Moskva, formerly Slava, [b] was a guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy. Commissioned in 1983, she was the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class , named after the city of Moscow . With a crew of 510, Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and the most powerful warship in the region.
S-300F (SA-N-6) missile launchers on a Slava-class cruiser. Moskva is the largest Soviet or Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War II, [70] when German aircraft bombed the Soviet battleship Marat, [71] and the first loss of a Russian flagship in wartime since the 1905 sinking of the battleship Knyaz Suvorov during the Battle of ...
The design started in the late 1960s, based around use of the P-500 Bazalt missile. The cruiser was intended as a less expensive conventionally powered alternative to the nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers. All are now armed with P-1000 Vulkan AShM missiles, developed in the late 1970s to late 1980s.
The guided missile cruiser Moskva of the Russian Black Sea fleet passes through the Bosporus in 2014. (Can Merey/EPA/Shutterstock) (Can Merey/EPA/Shutterstock)
For longtime observers of Vladimir Putin’s rise, it was impossible not to think of the Kursk when the Moskva, the flagship missile cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet, sank on April 14. The two ...
The UK Ministry of Defence said despite the losses of the cruiser Moskva and the landing ship Saratov, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet retained the ability to strike targets in Ukraine.
Guided missile cruiser Chervona Ukraina underway en route to the Pacific Ocean from the Black Sea. 1990. Slava (Project 1164) class (4 units, commissioned 3, lost 1) Slava \ «Слава» (1979) - Renamed Moskva \ «Москва» 1995. Guards cruiser since 1998. Sunk 2022.
The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan (Russian: Орлан, lit. 'sea eagle'), is a class of nuclear-powered guided-missile heavy cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) in operation in the world.