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Mogami, heavily damaged by a collision with the cruiser Nachi, cruiser gunfire, and aerial attack, was scuttled by the destroyer Akebono, while Kumano limped into Manila harbor on one boiler, to be sunk by Halsey's aviators on 25 November 1944; the US escort carrier planes mauled Suzuya at Leyte, which was scuttled by the destroyer Okinami on ...
Reductions in cruiser force levels were contrary to the views of Soviet Navy leadership, which insisted cruisers still provided a valuable capability to act as command ships for naval gunfire support of amphibious operations. They also thought they would provide a political presence in contested areas of the Third World, e.g. Cuba and Indonesia.
On 30 May 1989, the cruiser was disarmed and decommissioned from the Soviet Navy. The vessel was stricken on 31 October 1989. In 1990 Sverdlov was towed to Kronshtadt. In early 1991 the vessel was sold to an Indian company for scrap, and in October 1993 towed to India and scrapped. [2]
Design B-65 was a class of cruisers planned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before and during World War II.The IJN referred to this design as a 'Super Type A' cruiser; It was larger than most heavy cruisers but smaller than most battlecruisers, and as such, has been variously described as a 'super-heavy cruiser,' a 'super cruiser,' or as a 'cruiser-killer.'
Right elevation and plan view of the Warrior class from the 1912 Brassey's Naval Annual. The four armoured cruisers of the 1903–1904 Naval Programme were originally intended to be repeats of the preceding Duke of Edinburgh class, but complaints from the fleet that the low placement of the secondary armament of earlier ships of this type meant that the guns could not be fought in anything ...
From 1956 to 1962 she was part of the 2nd Cruiser Division in the Northern Fleet. [3] In February 1962, the light cruiser Aleksandr Nevsky was assigned to the newly formed 6th (Missile) Surface Ship Division. On 15 February 1953, she was commissioned into the Red Banner Northern Fleet. In May 1953, she made the transition to Leningrad, where ...
Tallinn was the seventh ship of the Kara-class cruisers of the Soviet Navy.She was launched in November 1976 and commissioned in December 1979 at the 61 Communards Shipyard. [2]
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. There was a long delay in this programme, while the problems with the Bazalt were resolved. [3]