Western alternative to the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great
Currently, the cruiser "Peter the Great" is the most powerful non-aircraft carrier strike ship in service with the North Fleet Russian Federation. The United States of America, after the campaign and exercises of the flagship of the Northern Fleet TARKR Peter the Great, began hastily preparing a project for the heavy nuclear cruiser CGN (X) project, with a displacement of 25 thousand tons and on which heavy artillery and anti-ship missiles will be the main weapon complex, it will go into service approximately in 2020-2030. Based on the fact that the Peter the Great TARKR has no analogues today, we compare it with the nearest ship of the American fleet with similar characteristics, namely, the Virginia nuclear missile cruiser, the Virginia nuclear missile cruiser CGN-38.
TARKR "Peter the Great"
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CRA "Virginia"
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Purpose
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- launched in 1998, designed to defeat large ships and protect naval groupings from submarine attacks and enemy air attacks. |
- launched in 1976 year, designed to protect sea groups from enemy attacks from the air and escort ships.
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Displacement, overall performance
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- displacement - 23750 tons; width - 28,5 m; length - 251,1 m; height 59 m; draft - 10,3 m; speed of 57 km / h (31 knots). The duration of the voyage (autonomously) - food supply - 2 months, 3 years in terms of fuel consumption, on a nuclear reactor - unlimited.
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- displacement - 11000 tons, length - 174м, width - 19,2м, height 22,3м, draft - 9м, speed of the 33 node. The duration of the voyage (autonomously) is unlimited at a nuclear reactor. |
Power plant
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- 2 nuclear reactors, type KN-3 (300 MW), 4 power plants with a capacity of 18 thousand kW, two boilers, a gas turbine generator - 1500 kW, two turbines with a total capacity of 140 thousand hp, 4 steam turbine generators - 3000 kW, two propeller shaft. |
- 2 nuclear reactors D2G General Electric with a capacity of 60000 hp (300MW),
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Cruiser crew
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- 635 man of them 105 officers, 130 midshipmen, 400 sailors. |
- 560 people |
weaponry
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- 20 CM-233 launchers with high-precision advanced anti-ship cruise missiles "Granit"; - anti-aircraft complex C-300F "Reef" includes 12 launchers and ammunition 96 missiles; - Autonomous anti-ship system "Dagger", the total stock - 128 missiles; - the Kashtan anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex, which includes 6 installations with two AO-18 assault rifles and two 30-mm AK-630M1-2 installations, two blocks of 4 9M311 missiles; - 130-mm twin guns "AK-130", ammunition 840 shells; - two rocket-torpedo complexes RPK-6М “Waterfall”, 533-mm., consisting of 10 launchers; - anti-torpedo complex ZKPTZ-1 "Udav-1М"; - RBU-1200, two RBU-1000 "Smerch"; - two paired 150 mm PK-14 launchers; |
- Two 45-mm guns MK.45; - 6 torpedo tubes 324-mm; - anti-ship missile system RGM-84 "Harpoon", equipped with cruise missiles "Tomahawk"; - 4 standard anti-aircraft installations; - two 15-mm anti-aircraft installations "Vulkan" MK.15; - one ASROK anti-submarine complex
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Ship aviation
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- 2 multipurpose heavy helicopter Ka-27 |
- X-NUMX helicopters SH-2 system LAMPS |
Radar equipment
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- two space communication stations (SATSOM), - four space navigation stations (SATPAU); - four special electronic stations; - Radar "Fregat-MAE"; - four navigation shooting control systems; - three navigation stations;
- hydroacoustic system;
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- Sonar: 1 EDO / GE SQS 53A bow-mounted - one ITT SPS 48C or 48D / E 3D radar; - one Raytheon SPS 49 (V) 5 or Lockheed SPS 40B; - one ISC Cardion SPS 55; - one Raytheon SPS 64 (V) 9 locator - two fire control systems SPG 51D; - one SPG 60D fire control system; - one SPQ 9A fire control system |
As can be seen from our comparison of nuclear cruisers, currently the heavy missile cruiser “Peter the Great” is the most powerful ship in its class. The ships of the "Virginia" project have already been withdrawn from service in the United States Naval Forces and have nothing of the kind.
Project 1144 ship "Orlan" - called "the killer of aircraft carriers" or "atomic killer", "Peter the Great" will not be lonely for long, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the cruisers "Admiral Nakhimov", "Admiral Ushakov", "Admiral Lazarev" will undergo re-equipment and will become part of the Russian Navy. The re-equipment will affect missile systems, the newest missile systems and complex solutions will go into service with the ships. After the cruisers are commissioned, they will solve a variety of tasks to repel the strikes of the enemy Air Force, defeat ground targets with missiles and destroy almost any enemy equipment.
The newest radio-electronic complexes will be delivered to the cruisers and they will repair the hulls of the ships and power plants.
The main goal of the modernization is to replace the Granit anti-ship complex with universal ship-firing complexes of the USKS, which will be able to fire various types of missiles. Main weapon cruisers against aircraft carriers will be missiles "Caliber" and "Onyx". The C-400 air defense launchers and the latest short-range air defense systems will be delivered.
In general, the updated cruisers will be able to carry on board up to 300 missiles of different caliber, becoming the most powerful ships with missile weapons in the world.
The first after the equipment will be the cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" in 2015, work on its modernization and repair has already begun.
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