R.I.P Big E. It’s a shame she could be transformed into ship museum. US have a long tradition to maintain a huge number of naval floating museums. It is a nuclear powered ship but other nuclear ships like LENIN icebreaker are kept as historical monuments

Russian navy is at the final stages of designing work for a new nuclear (more than 90% probable according to admiral Visotskiy) powered cruiser/destroyer project. I want to ask if someone has more detailed information about that issue.

As for the apparent short range of Klub land attack missiles, that’s a concession to the MTCR for exportability. Technically, it owes much to the nuclear 3M10 Granat which has a much longer reach and for domestic applications a Klub variant with similar capabilities should be easy to develop.

3M10 and 3M14 have the same size so 3M10 could be fitted in the new Gorshkov’s VLS. Then why they don’t arm the project 22350 with the non export 3M10 Granat? There is no sence for a Land Attack weapon to have just 250km range. LACM’s supposed to replace aircrafts for bombarmeds to the deep inland.

“Some rumors say we have flying saucers at Area 51. . .”

With this kind of irony, seems that you have the same IQ level with Sara Palin and those “tea party” participants…

Anyway,

I ve written about some rumors (for the time of being nothing is official, exept that the vessel will carry a 5000km range weapon), from various sites.

from:http://rusnavy.com/news/newsofday/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=8420

ARMAMENT
10 x 650-mm and 533-mm torpedo tubes
P-100 Onyx antiship cruise missiles
Kh-35 antiship cruise missiles
Kh-101 strategic cruise missiles
3M-54E and 3M-54E1 antiship cruise missiles
3M-14E cruise missiles

Thats funny becouse just about **EVERY** article or written text about pr. 885 descripes it’s weaponry little bit different than the other…

A few photos of kh-101 being carried by Tu-95 saws a stlealth body, like air launched SCALP. If the 3100nm ranged missile is finally a navalised kh-101 this will be a vesrion with cylindrical shape like SCALP naval. An improved version of granat with extended range is also possible. If cruise missiles like granat are launched from torpedo tubes, I wonder why SSBNs like Delta VI carring only SS-N-16 stallion?

Steam turbines are more noisy, and thats why the Udaloys which are ASW vessels using gas turbines.

Firstly I find this Hull AWFUL. Looks to me like WWI Dreadnought, with US civil war ironglad superstructure on it. Why such a stealth warship? This is the first warship on earth without mast!!! If Zumwalt ever copmleted I wonder were they fly their flag? I adore Arleigh Burges. They are real warships, powerful enough and technologicaly at the highest level compared with other navies ships. They have even larger amount of VLS than the Zumhalts. They have 96 VLS, and Zumhalts only 80. Also I dont understand the need of these 6.1 inch railguns. You have Tomahawks for this job and for shorter ranges you have Harpoon BlockII. They have excactly the same range as the rail gun , 140km. Finally I want to ask were is the funel of Zumhalt at the superstructure? I think they forgot the Funel…