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Russian Navy Slava-class Cruiser Marshal Ustinov to Start Sea Trials in August - September

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Russian Navy Slava-class Cruiser Marshal Ustinov to Start Sea Trials in August - September
 
The Russian Navy Northern Fleet’s Project 1164 (NATO reporting name: Slava-class) Marshal Ustinov guided missile cruiser currently being repaired and upgraded at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia will start undergoing running trials at sea in late August - early September, the shipyard’s press office told TASS.
     
The Russian Navy Northern Fleet’s Project 1164 (NATO reporting name: Slava-class) Marshal Ustinov guided missile cruiser currently being repaired and upgraded at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia will start undergoing running trials at sea in late August - early September, the shipyard’s press office told TASS.
A starboard bow view of the Slava Class Russian guided missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov underway. Picture: US Navy
     
"The missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov is planned to start undergoing running trials at sea in late August - early September," the press office said. Shipyard CEO Nikolai Kalistratov said earlier that the ship would be delivered to the Russian Navy in 2016 in accordance with the contract.

The missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov arrived at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in June 2011 for planned repairs. In November 2012, the missile cruiser was brought to the shipyard’s dry dock.

Work was carried out to repair the ship’s drainage, bilge-pumping and fire-extinguishing systems, as well as its shaft line, screws, stabilizers and other systems and mecchanisms. The ship’s outer hull and tanks were painted.

The missile cruiser was floated out in June 2013 for its further upgrade afloat.

Russia’s Navy operates three Project 1164 missile cruisers, in particular, the Black Sea Fleet’s ship Moskva, the Pacific Fleet’s vessel Varyag and the Northern Fleet’s ship Marshal Ustinov.

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The Russian Navy Northern Fleet’s Project 1164 (NATO reporting name: Slava-class) Marshal Ustinov guided missile cruiser currently being repaired and upgraded at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia will start undergoing running trials at sea in late August - early September, the shipyard’s press office told TASS.
Recent picture of Marshal Ustinov in final stages of refit and modernization at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia.
     
Navy Recognition's comment:
According to various sources, the Marshal Ustinov is being fitted with an advanced missile system, probably, the Kalibr (SS-N-27 Sizzler) or Oniks (SS-N-26 Strobile). The upgrade will provide the cruiser with the Podberyozovik three-dimensional long-range target acquisition radar and Fregat-M2M sea-skimming target acquisition radar. There have been statements that the ship will not receive advanced air defense missile systems.

The Project 1164 Atlant-class cruisers are designed for dealing with enemy surface combatants and providing combat stability of Russian task forces in remote corners of the ocean. The development of the class began in the later 1970s. Four cruisers were built, of which three are in the Russian Navy’s inventory. The cruisers in the class displace a total of 11,500 tons and measure 186 m in length. They have a full speed of 32 knots, a range of 7,500 nm at 18 knots, a 130-mm AK-130 gun, antiship and air defense missile systems, 30-mm AK-630M antiaircraft guns and torpedoes. They can carry a Kamov Ka-27 (Helix) helicopter or derivatives thereof.