Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser
Admiral Nakhimov was one of the Soviet Navy’s largest and most powerful warships. However, she has spent most of her career waiting for a substantial upgrade to be completed. The vessel is now set to get a new lease on life that could also keep the aging warship in service for at least another decade or longer if the ongoing refit is ever actually completed.
Laid down in May 1983 at the Baltic Shipyard and launched in April 1986, the battlecruiser was commissioned into the Soviet Navy on December 30, 1988 as the
Kalinin. Renamed in 1992 in honor of Pavel Nakhimov, an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy who commanded the naval and land forces during the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, this is the fifth warship to bear his name.
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Over the past few years, the U.S. Navy has experienced personnel training problems, ship design fiascos, and fleet operating concepts that failed to materialize. As it grapples with these issues, as well as a rising competitor in the Pacific, the Navy can look to the example of the early Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and its emergence as one of the most respected navies of the early 20th century.
The IJN was born into a period of chaos during the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Pushed to the sidelines by the army, the leaders of the IJN had to figure out how to build a fleet without the traditions, technical knowledge, and operational experience most first- and even second-rate naval powers already exhibited and how to do this for pennies on the dollar. The IJN’s early admirals realized foreign nations could hold valuable lessons.