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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.
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 first known report of a missile hitting the ship was at 20:42, 13 April 2022 Ukrainian time (EEST, UTC+03:00) with a Facebook post by a Ukrainian volunteer connected to the military: [6] "The cruiser Moskva has just been hit by 2 Neptune missiles. It is standing [not sunk], burning.
Light Cruiser 1951 11 600 0 Light cruiser design based on the Chapayev-Class. Precursor to the Sverdlov-class. 66 Heavy Cruiser 1953 30 850 0 Cruiser-killer design similar to the Stalingrad-class battlecruisers, construction of lead ship planned for 1953-1956, cancelled 1954. [44] 67 67 Guided Missile Cruiser 1 0
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.
Russian warship Moskva sinks in Black Sea The guided missile cruiser Moskva of the Russian Black Sea fleet passes through the Bosporus in 2014. (Can Merey/EPA/Shutterstock) (Can Merey/EPA ...
The service spent $250.54 million to upgrade the Anzio but later discontinued work on the ship due to cost overruns. USS Cowpens. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63 ...
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. One of the other major roles of this cruiser type is to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft carriers, and other heavy ships.