The distinction between Improved Akula and Akula 2 is mainly inside the hull. So, if You are completing it now, there is no need to complete it as Improved Akula./

pooh pooh pooh, anyone seen anything as ugly as this (except for Maresesti)??? Those ugly funnels and masts… YUK!
All in all probably not a bad ship if everything works.

It’s just De Zeven Provincen pushed to the utmost in order to bring radars as high as possible (and even more than sensible) :diablo:

The article on the Klinok M3 modification is very ambiguous. It states about new antenna and at the same time mentions new system for beam control. I guess what it means is that they will introduce search mode with narrower beam which is better for detection of low altitude LO objects. The same antenna (or rather the beam control system) will be used for upgrade of already existing Klinok and Osa-MA systems. The article also mentions new computer and software as well as new interface with other ship’s systems.
By the way, antennae post of Klinok has several antennae, guess they talk about search radar, not FCS.
I’d better go ahead with Poliment instead of spending money on Klinok. Nevertheless, the upgrade for Klinok was long due, I heard that one was intended already ten years ago, now they have a lot of oil dollars to spend 😉

This was for real. The largest of Soviet space tracking ships “Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin” was taken over by Ukraine in 1991 and sold for scrap to India in 1996. Before going to the millers it had it’s last moment of glory in the movie “Virus”. The ship was 231 meters long and displaced 45 kT. There was a hell of a lot of place for bad aliens to hide.

P-750 MeteoritM missile (weapon system Grom) was not intended to replace Granit, but rather to supplement it, as, initially, it was intended to supplement Granit on Pr.949M subs (to add strategic land attack capability), making them universal carriers. But… The missile was too long for Granit launchers, installation of Grom targeting system called for lengthening of sub for 5-7 metres, efforts to develop universal targeting system failed.
P-1000 Vulcan was just a longer legged version of Bazalt, using more powerful boosters, titanium alloys and dropping armour to ensure 700 km range as in Granit but in less sofisticated and lighter missile. Initial plan was to replace all Bazalts with Vulcans, but it was dropped in favour of Yakhont (Onyx). This plan in turn went dead with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A fully equipped 051C at last!!!

Projekt 1941 was not built using hull of 1144 or 1153, it also has a different (civilian) powerplant, on par with nuclear ice-breakers.
The other ship on Your photo is “Kosmonavt Valdimir Komarov”, built already in 1967 and decommissioned in 1989, so it has no relation to 1941. There is Projekt 1914 “Marshal Nedelin” which was built at approximately the same time as “Ural” and has the same equipment on one third of displacement. “Ural” was so costly, that after one year of service it was put on reserve.