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Russian Navy nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great
Russian Northern Fleet flagship,” Peter the Great “will also be heavy nuclear-powered cruiser arrived in the Arabian Sea waters in the near future

According to the Russian Interfax reported that Russian government has decided to further increase the tasks assigned to waters off Somalia to escort ships in the implementation of number, several vessels have arrived in large ships will soon sea duty, which also includes Russia’s Northern Fleet’s flagship – - “Peter the Great” nuclear-powered guided missile heavy cruiser.

Russian Navy spokesman said the Russian Pacific Fleet, sent an order to “Admiral Vinogradov”, led by large anti-submarine fleet has recently entered the Arabian Sea. These ships will have more than two months in the area perform escort missions, “Fearless” frigate convergence. With the “Admiral Vinogradov” into the Arabian Sea ships include “Vladimir Krylov season” tugboat, “鲍里斯布托玛” and “Do not piano plus” sign tanker. This four ships on December 9 last year, from Vladivostok starting, in addition to performing the tasks to combat piracy, they will be in late January to early February with the Indian Navy, codenamed “Indra-2009″ joint naval exercises.

The Russian Northern Fleet as flagship of the “Peter the Great” will also be heavy nuclear-powered cruiser arrived in the Arabian Sea waters in the near future. Planned, the ship will be the first port visit to Cape Town, South Africa, then will enter the “Horn of Africa,” near the sea. “Peter the Great” will also participate in “Indra-2009″ joint military exercises, then will begin the implementation of the escort mission off Somalia.

“Peter the Great”, “Kirov” class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser belonging to the world after World War II aircraft carrier built outside the maximum level in addition to ships, load displacement of 24,300 tons, and equipment from the vertical launch missile system and a large number of , and is equipped with three helicopters, the tonnage of the great fire of strong national navy was so shocked. The cruiser design in the 1970s, 1986, commence construction in 1991, completed 80% engineering, construction plans were suspended, three years after the re-start. “Peter the Great” on April 18, 1998 was incorporated into the Russian Northern Fleet.

relative to the shoulder of the escort mission, the “Peter the Great” of the fire with no doubt become too powerful. Its weapons include: 20 SS-N-19 “granite” anti-ship missile launchers (20 missiles); 12 SA-N-6 “thunder” ship to air missile vertical launcher (96 missiles); 2 Block eight-mounted SA-N-9 vertical air missile launchers (128 missiles); two pairs of mounted SA-N-4 “gecko” ship-to-air missile launchers (40 missiles); 6 CAD3- N-1 “Kashtan” One recent anti-missile and artillery systems (paragraphs 1, 2 ship for 8 30 mm gun), each block of the system eight SA-N-11 ship-air missiles and a 30 mm double-barreled gun; a 130 mm double-barreled gun (the first ship of 2 100 mm single-tube gun); one pair mounted SS-N-14 anti-submarine missile launchers (no, after three ships), 14 missiles; two 5-mounted 533 mm torpedo tubes; a 10 RBU12000 anti-submarine rocket launchers (Article 1, Section 2 of 12 RBU6000 ship anti-submarine rocket launchers), 2 6 RBU1000 anti-submarine rocket launchers . In addition, it is also equipped with a calibration card-25B helicopter and two card-27A anti-submarine helicopters. (Compass)

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