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The Slava class, Soviet designation Project 1164 Atlant (Russian: Атлант, romanized: Atlant, lit. 'Atlas'), is a class of guided-missile cruisers designed and constructed in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy, and currently operated by the Russian Navy.
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.
The Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov (Russian: Маршал Устинов), is a Slava-class cruiser (Project 1164) of the Russian Navy. The Russian name for the ship type is Raketnyy Kreyser (RKR), meaning "Missile Cruiser". The ship is named after Dmitriy Ustinov, a former Soviet Minister of Defence.
The Slava class was designed as part of a new strategy of creating bastions for ballistic missile submarines. Project 1143 and 1164 ships were to protect these bastions, and the new SS-N-12 missile was designed to strike major enemy anti-submarine warfare units.
Slava (Project 1164) class (4 units, commissioned 3, lost 1) Slava \ «Слава» (1979) - Renamed Moskva \ «Москва» 1995. Guards cruiser since 1998. Sunk 2022. Admiral flota Lobov \ «Адмирал флота Лобов» (1982) - Renamed Marshal Ustinov \ «Маршал Устинов» 1986
The Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the first warships to be equipped with the Aegis Combat System, an automated weapon control system designed to detect, track, and engage aerial, surface ...
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2 Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser. 3 Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser. 4 See also. ... Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser