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Russia's Sevmash Shipyard Renewing Kirov Class Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov Hull Structures - TASS

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Russia's Sevmash Shipyard Renewing Kirov Class Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov Hull Structures
 
The Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia has started renewing hull structures of the Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (NATO designation: Kirov class) currently being upgraded, the shipyard’s press office said on Thursday.
     
The Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia has started renewing hull structures of the Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (NATO designation: Kirov class) currently being upgraded, the shipyard’s press office said on Thursday.
The Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered missile cruiser (project 1144.2) in the dry dock at Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk in November 2014. Picture: Sevmash
     
The Sevmash Shipyard is a subsidiary of the United Ship-Building Corporation.

"The defect survey of the cruiser’s hull structures is nearing completion. The shipyard has started renewing them," the press office said. "Most of the cruiser’s hull structures have been cleaned to the metal level. New rooms will be built on it," the press office said. "The hull defect survey is nearing completion. No serious problems have been registered. Shot-blasting and prime coating works are under way," the press office added.

Also, the Sevmash Shipyard received designs made by the Severnoye Design Bureau, which is the developer of the cruiser. The Sevmash Shipyard is currently mounting separate components on the cruiser’s hull.
     
File picture: Aerial starboard quarter view of the Russian Northern Fleet Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (CGN-080) underway.
File picture: Aerial starboard quarter view of the Russian Northern Fleet Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (CGN-080) underway.
     
A contract is expected to be signed in 2016 to deliver new equipment for the Project 11442M cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. Works are planned to be conducted to prepare the vessel for installing the equipment. In 2015, the Sevmash Shipyard fully dismantled obsolete equipment on the Project 11442M cruiser Admiral Nakhimov.

During its upgrade, the cruiser will be armed with the Kalibr cruise missile system and S-400 surface to air missiles (48N6DM AAGM).

The Kirov-class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, known as the Kalinin until 1992, was commissioned in 1989 and mothballed in 1999. It has since been docked for upgrades at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk, on the White Sea.

Sevmash deputy head Sergei Marichev said in a statement in June 2013 that the Admiral Nakhimov would become the most advanced heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser in the Russian Navy. A press release at the time mentionned that the vessel should rejoin the fleet in 2018.

Originally four Kirov-class cruisers were built for the Soviet Navy. As of today only one vessel, the Pyotr Velikiy, is still operational. Russia initially planned to return two other Kirov-class vessels to service (in addition to Admiral Nakhilov) after several years of disuse. However, it was later indicated that the condition of the reactor cores of both ships was such that it would prove difficult, expensive and potentially dangerous to remove the spent nuclear fuel and repair the cores.

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