Did it sound like a joke to you?
Neustrishimy class might be a good ASW frigate but she is a sailing turkey without land-based air-cover and would drain upon the resources of other ships in a crisis environment. The short ranged Klinok & Kashtan is not going to give a 2nd thought for any aircrafts. They can even fly overhead and drop dumb bombs out of coverage of the shrot-ranged missiles. I firmly believe the two ships has to be given a decent medium-range AD cover. Its not good to depend on land-based aviation.

moreover, Black sea fleets area of operation is not just Black sea, it included the Black sea & the Mediterranean.

But, why do you think that changing over to Shtil is not worth & cost-effective?

Then I’m sure you also think Udaloys are (even more, relateive to their size) underarmed. Because they use Klinok + 2×2 Ak630 in most cases.

Do you understand what a mock-up is? 9M100 is still in the mock-up stage.

Do you understand I did not state anything about these being real items – as in functional missiles? (Having a bad day?)
http://ttvnol.com/quansu/1185082/page-42

This is wishful thinking. This is AA missile, which is considered as prototype for 9M100.

Note the date of the flight international issue in which this appeared (1996!)

Do they have the design? Wasn’t one of the problems with rebuilding Gorshkov that the Russians didn’t have the detailed design drawings, & couldn’t agree a price for them with the Ukrainians?

The ships were designed in Russia to begin with IIRC.
Designer: Nevskoye Planning and Design Bureau, St. Petersburg, Russia
Builder: Nikolayev South Shipyard a.k.a. Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard a.k.a. Black Sea Shipbuilding Yard a.k.a. Soviet Shipyard No. 444, Nikolayev, Ukraine
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1143_7.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/nevskoye.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/chernomorsky.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Shipyard

Besides,

Beginning in 2020 or soon after, two 60,000-plus-ton nuclear-powered carriers would follow, based on plans for the Soviet-designed but never built Project 1143.7 Ulyanovsk class.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=dti&id=news/dti/2011/01/01/DT_01_01_2011_p71-272520.xml

That means at least someone has the plans.

In future, we may be able to snap a pic similar to the one below, on the left the new Chinese carrier and on the right the new Indian carrier, coming together for a port visit somewhere.

All of the in-service 1155s aside from Kulakov have a full compliment of Klinok at this point.

Good for FRSN! Like Kulakov, Neustrashimy is but a single ship.

Snake65 i could see lot of VLS cells on Gorshkov frigate , VLS cells even amid ship how many SAM and Anti-ship missiles does it carry ?

I’m not sure the items amidship are actually VLS’s. Given their location, I think they may be accesshatch-covers (access to GTu’s). Not sure if items left and right of 2×8 cells VLU immediately forward of bridge are also VLU (might be ASW missile).
Main missile loadout: 24x SAM cells (not precluding quadpacking), 16x SSM (or a mix of SSM, LAM, ASROC > i.e. Klub family)

I’ll bet you she can’t, not without serious help anyway, perhaps that is what the french used to sweeten the mistral deal.

If they can put together the Orlant/Kirov GCN, or a new 10k ton nuclear ship (posted elsewhere), why wouldn’t they be able to put together a CVN? The French adopted a modified submarine nuclear plant for CdG. I think Russia has some experience in that area too…