Hard to tell, this ship will replace the Udaloy and Sovremenny classes into one platform.
Whether a new nuclear or conventional cruiser will be developed remains to be seen. I would wage that both the Slavas and Kirovs have another 20 years left in them.
Weapons wise, this thing will dwarf any other destroyer out there.
Just like Yasen will be a hell of an attack sub.
A rather old article in this forum stated that Udaloy and Sovremenny will be replaced by Gorshkov class frigates and that these “frigates” in reality have the weight, size and punch of destroyers. This new project is over 9.000 tn and have a tremendous punch, so in spite of be classified as “destroyer”, can work as a cruiser.
In fact this has sense, because it greatly reduces the number of vessel classes. Steregushchy will replace Corvettes and Frigates. Gorskkov will replace destroyers and this new project will replace Cruisers.
I love big monsters like Kirov and Slava but, let be realistic, these are creatures from the past. In spite of this, they can have 2 decades more life if properly modernized, to buy time for new projects to come in substantive umbers.
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