Western alternative to the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great"

2024 Author: Matthew Elmers | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 02:19

Currently, the cruiser "Peter the Great" is the most powerful non-aircraft-carrying strike ship in service with the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation. The United States of America, after the campaign and exercises of the flagship of the Northern Fleet TARKR "Peter the Great", began hastily to prepare a project for a heavy nuclear cruiser of the CGN (X) project, with a displacement of 25 thousand tons and on which heavy artillery and anti-ship missiles will be the main weapon complex, will enter service around 2020-2030. Proceeding from the fact that the Peter the Great TARKR has no analogues today, let us compare it with the closest ship of the American fleet with similar characteristics, namely the nuclear missile cruiser of the Virginia project - the nuclear missile cruiser CGN-38 Virginia.

<table "Peter the Great"

<td "Virginia"

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 width = 319 launched in 1998, designed to defeat large ships and protect naval groupings from submarine attacks and enemy air attacks.

<td width = 319 launched in 1976, designed to protect naval groupings from enemy air attacks and escort ships.

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 dimensions <td width = 319 displacement - 23750 tons; width - 28.5 m; length - 251.1 m; height 59 m; draft - 10, 3 m; speed 57 km / h (31 knots). The duration of the voyage (autonomously) - food supply - 2 months, 3 years in terms of fuel consumption, on a nuclear reactor - unlimited.

<td width = 319 displacement - 11000 tons, length - 174m, width - 19.2m, height 22.3m, draft - 9m, speed 33 knots. The duration of the voyage (autonomously) - at a nuclear reactor is unlimited.

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 setting <td width = 319 2 nuclear reactors, type KN-3 (300 MW), 4 power plants with a capacity of 18 thousand kW, two boilers, a gas turbine generator - 1500 kW, two turbines with a total capacity of 140 thousand hp, 4 steam turbine generators - 3000kW., Two propeller shafts.

<td width = 319 2 General Electric 60,000 hp D2G nuclear reactors (300MW),

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 cruisers <td width = 319 635 people, including 105 officers, 130 warrant officers, 400 sailors.

<td width = 319,560 people

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 width = 319 20 SM-233 launchers with Granit high-precision advanced anti-ship cruise missiles;

- anti-aircraft complex S-300F "Rif" including 12 launchers and ammunition for 96 missiles;

- autonomous anti-ship system "Dagger", total stock - 128 missiles;

- anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex "Kashtan", which includes 6 installations with two AO-18 assault rifles and two 30-mm AK-630M1-2 installations, two blocks of 4 9M311 missiles;

- 130-mm twin artillery mounts "AK-130", 840 rounds of ammunition;

- two missile and torpedo complexes RPK-6M "Waterfall", 533-mm., consisting of 10 launchers;

- anti-torpedo complex ZKPTZ-1 "Udav-1M";

- RBU-1200, two RBU-1000 "Smerch";

- two paired 150 mm PK-14 launchers;

<td width = 319 two 45 mm MK.45 guns;

- 6 torpedo tubes 324 mm;

- anti-ship missile system RGM-84 "Harpoon", equipped with cruise missiles "Tomahawk";

- 4 standard anti-aircraft guns;

- two 15-mm anti-aircraft guns "Volcano" MK.15;

- one anti-submarine complex "ASROK"

<td colspan = 2 width = 638 aviation <td width = 319 2 Ka-27 multipurpose heavy helicopters

<td width = 319 2 SH-2 LAMPS helicopters

<td colspan = 2 equipment <td width = 319 two space communication stations (SATSOM),

- four space navigation stations (SATPAU);

- four special electronic stations;

- Radar "Fregat-MAE";

- four navigation fire control systems;

- three navigation stations;

- hydroacoustic system;

<td width = 319 Sonar: 1 EDO / GE SQS 53A bow-mounted

- one ITT SPS 48C or 48D / E 3D radar;

- one Raytheon SPS 49 (V) 5 or Lockheed SPS 40B;

- one ISC Cardion SPS 55;

- one Raytheon SPS 64 (V) 9 locator

- two fire control systems SPG 51D;

- one SPG 60D fire control system;

- one SPQ 9A fire control system

As can be seen from our comparison of nuclear-powered cruisers, the heavy missile cruiser Peter the Great is currently the most powerful ship in its class. The ships of the "Virginia" project have already been withdrawn from the combat strength of the United States Naval Forces and have nothing of the kind.

Project 1144 ship "Orlan" - referred to as "the killer of aircraft carriers" or "atomic killer", "Peter the Great" will not be lonely for long, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the cruisers "Admiral Nakhimov", "Admiral Ushakov", "Admiral Lazarev" will undergo re-equipment and will become part of the Russian Navy. The re-equipment will affect missile systems, the ships will be armed with the latest missile systems and complex solutions. After the cruisers are commissioned, they will solve a wide variety of tasks to repel the strikes of the enemy Air Force, defeat ground targets with missiles and destroy practically any enemy equipment.

The cruisers will be equipped with the latest electronic systems, and the hulls of ships and power plants will be repaired.

The main goal of the modernization is to replace the Granit anti-ship complex with the UKSK universal ship-borne firing systems, which will be able to fire various types of missiles. The main weapon of cruisers against aircraft carriers will be the Caliber and Onyx missiles. S-400 air defense launchers and the latest short-range air defense systems will be delivered.

In general, the updated cruisers will be able to carry on board up to 300 missiles of various calibers, becoming the most powerful missile-armed ships in the world.

The first after the equipment will be the cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" in 2015, work on its modernization and repair has already begun.