USS Valley Forge (CG-50) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. She was named for Valley Forge, where the Continental Army camped during one winter in the American Revolution.
The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was launched on 29 September 1984, by her sponsor Julia Vadala Taft, wife of Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft IV.
During the 1986 RIMPAC naval exercise, she acted as the plane guard for the aircraft carrier USS Ranger.
She saw action during Desert Storm in the USS Ranger battle group and served as the overall Anti-Air warfare commander for the gulf (Bravo Zulu AAWC).
In March 2003, Valley Forge was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 21.
The ship was decommissioned on 31 August 2004, at San Diego Naval Station, the first ship with the Aegis combat system withdrawn from service. Valley Forge was sunk on 2 November 2006, as part of a target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii.
Awards
Combat Action Ribbon - (16-28 Feb 1991)
Joint Meritorious Unit Award - (Dec 1992-May 1993)
Navy Unit Commendation - (Jan-Feb 1991, Jan-May 2003)
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - (Dec 1994-May 1995, Jun-Dec 1998)
Navy E Ribbon - (1989, 1995, 1998)
Navy Expeditionary Medal - (Jun-Jul 1987)
Special Operations Service Ribbon - (Apr-May 1993)
HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser, the second of five in the class. She served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War. She was launched in 1931 for the Royal Navy, loaned to New Zealand in 1936 and transferred to the new Royal New Zealand Navy in 1941. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire control radar, with the installation of the New Zealand-made SS1 fire-control radar in June 1940.
After Second World War service in the Atlantic and Pacific, she was returned to the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Indian Navy in 1948 and recommissioned as INS Delhi. She was scrapped in 1978.
She was the second of five ships of the Leander-class light cruisers, designed as effective follow-ons to the York class. Upgraded to Improved Leander-class, she could carry an aircraft and was the first ship to carry a Supermarine Walrus, although both Walruses were lost before the Second World War began. At one time she carried the unusual DH.82 Queen Bee which was a radio-controlled unmanned aircraft, normally used as a drone.
Achilles was originally built for the Royal Navy, and was commissioned as HMS Achilles on 10 October 1933. She would serve with the Royal Navy's New Zealand Division from 31 March 1937 up to the creation of the Royal New Zealand Navy, into which she was transferred in September 1941 and recommissioned HMNZS Achilles. About 60 per cent of her crew was from New Zealand.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Achilles began patrolling the west coast of South America looking for German merchant ships, but by 22 October 1939 she had arrived at the Falkland Islands, where she was assigned to the South American Division under Commodore Henry Harwood and allocated to Force G (with Exeter and Cumberland).
In the early morning of 13 December 1939, a force consisting of Achilles, Ajax and Exeter detected smoke on the horizon, which was confirmed at 06:16 to be a pocket battleship, thought to be the German battleship Admiral Scheer but which turned out to be Admiral Graf Spee. A fierce battle ensued, at a range of about 11 nautical miles (20 km). Achilles suffered some damage. In the exchange of fire, four crew were killed, her captain, WE Parry, was wounded; 36 of Graf Spee's crew were killed.
The range reduced to about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) at around 07:15 and Graf Spee broke off the engagement around 07:45 to head for the neutral harbour of Montevideo which she entered at 22:00 that night, having been pursued by Achilles and Ajax all day. Graf Spee was forced by international law to leave within 72 hours. Faced with what he believed to be overwhelming odds, the captain of Graf Spee, Hans Langsdorff, scuttled his ship rather than risk the lives of his crew. An ensign flag flown by HMS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate was donated to Christ Church Cathedral in the Falkland Islands and is still on display hanging on the south wall of the Cathedral at Port Stanley.
Following the Atlantic battle, Achilles returned to Auckland, New Zealand, on 23 February 1940, where she underwent a refit until June. After German raider activity in the South Pacific in 1940 Achilles escorted the first Trans-Tasman commercial convoy, VK.1, composed of Empire Star, Port Chalmers, Empress of Russia, and Maunganui leaving Sydney 30 December 1940 for Auckland.[4] After Japan entered the war, she escorted troop convoys, then joined the ANZAC Squadron in the south-west Pacific.
Achilles met HMAS Canberra, flagship of Rear-Admiral John G. Crace, and HMAS Perth in December 1941 to form an escort for the Pensacola Convoy. While operating off Guadalcanal Island with US Navy Task Force 67 on 5 January 1943, she was attacked by four Japanese aircraft. A bomb blew the top off X turret, killing 13 sailors. Between April 1943 and May 1944 Achilles was docked in Portsmouth, England for repairs and modernisation. Her single 4-inch AA guns were replaced by the dual-purpose QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun in four twin mountings, modern radar was fitted, and the damaged X turret was replaced by four QF 2 pom poms in a quadruple-mount. The work was delayed by a dockyard explosion that killed 14 men. Stoker William Dale was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving for his actions in saving the lives of several dockyard workers.
Sent back to the New Zealand Fleet, Achilles next joined the British Pacific Fleet in May 1945 for final operations in the Pacific War.
After the war, Achilles was returned to the Royal Navy at Sheerness in Kent, England on 17 September 1946. She was then sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned on 5 July 1948 as INS Delhi. She remained in service until decommissioned for scrap in Bombay on 30 June 1978. In 1968 she was present at the granting of independence to Mauritius representing the Indian Government together with the Royal Navy frigate Tartar under Captain Cameron Rusby. As part of the scrapping her Y turret was removed and presented as a gift to the New Zealand government. It is now on display at the entrance of Devonport Naval Base in Auckland. On 22 January 1979, Admiral Jal Cursetji, the Indian Navy Chief of the Naval Staff, presented Achilles's builder's plaque, steering wheel and engine room telegraph to Admiral Terence Lewin, the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the Royal Navy.
Achilles played herself in the film The Battle of the River Plate in 1956.
Name:HMS Achilles
Namesake:Achilles
Builder:Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England
Laid down:11 June 1931
Launched:1 September 1932
Commissioned:10 October 1933
Out of service:Loaned to Royal New Zealand Navy 1 October 1936
The third USS Los Angeles (CA-135) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, laid down by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, on 28 July 1943 and launched on 20 August 1944. She was sponsored by Mrs. Fletcher Bowron and commissioned on 22 July 1945, with Captain John A. Snackenberg in command.
Service history
1944–1948
After shakedown out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Los Angeles sailed on 15 October for the Far East via the west coast and arrived at Shanghai, China, on 3 January 1946. During the next year she operated with the 7th Fleet along the coast of China and in the western Pacific to the Marianas. She returned to San Francisco, California, on 21 January 1947, and was decommissioned at Hunters Point on 9 April 1948, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
1951–1953
Los Angeles was recommissioned on 27 January 1951, Capt. Robert N. McFarlane in command. In response to the American efforts in the Korean War, she sailed for the Far East 14 May and joined naval operations off the eastern coast of Korea on 31 May as flagship for Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke's CRUDIV 5. During the next six months she ranged the coastal waters of the Korean Peninsula from Hungnam in the east to Haeju in the west while her guns pounded enemy coastal positions. After returning to the United States on 17 December for overhaul and training, she made her second deployment to Korean waters on 9 October 1952 and participated on 11 October in a concentrated shelling of enemy bunkers and observation points at Koji-ni. During the next few months, she continued to provide off-shore gunfire support for American ground operations, and cruised the Sea of Japan with fast carriers of the 7th Fleet. While participating in the bombardment of Wonsan late in March and early in April 1953, she received minor damage from enemy shore batteries, but continued operations until sailing for the west coast in mid-April. She arrived at Long Beach on 15 May.
1953–1963
Between November 1953 and June 1963 Los Angeles made eight more deployments to the Far East where she served as a cruiser division flagship with the 7th Fleet in support of "keeping the peace" operations in that troubled part of the world. Her operations sent her from the coast of Japan to the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East and South China Seas; and with units of the 7th Fleet she steamed to American bases in the Philippines and Okinawa, as well as to Allied bases in South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and Taiwan. During the Quemoy-Matsu crisis in 1956, she patrolled the Taiwan Strait to help protect ROC Army units from possible landing offenses from Communist China. When not deployed in the western Pacific, Los Angeles operated out of Long Beach along the west coast and in the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands. She returned to Long Beach from her final Far East deployment on 20 June 1963.
Decommissioning and sale
While some consideration was made to convert Los Angeles into a single-end Talos missile cruiser, with flagship facilities (in essence a heavy cruiser version of the Oklahoma City) funds were not appropriated for this, (or for a general overhaul to enable her continued fleet service), so she was decommissioned at Long Beach on 15 November 1963 and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Stricken on 1 January 1974, and sold on 16 May 1975 (sale #16-5049) to the National Steel Corporation for $1,864,380.21, and scrapped in San Pedro, California.
The flying bridge and a small portion of the bow section of the Los Angeles is on display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro, CA.
In popular culture
USS Los Angeles was featured in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Red Sea Sharks by Hergé. She is shown patrolling in the Red Sea and is involved in the rescue of Tintin and his friends from a post-war Type II U-boat operated by slave traders.
In a scene (approximately 47:40–53:00) from the 1977 film MacArthur depicting a Pearl Harbor shipboard strategy meeting between President Roosevelt, Nimitz, and MacArthur, a painting of the USS Los Angeles is clearly seen on the bulkhead.
Awards
Occupation Germany/Japan
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
China Service Medal *2 Jan - 30 Aug 46
National Defense Service Medal with star
Korean Service Medal with 5 battle stars
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with 2battle stars
United Nations Korea Medal
Korean Presidential Unit Citation
Name:Los Angeles
Namesake:City of Los Angeles, California
Builder:Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia
Laid down:28 July 1943
Launched:20 August 1944
Commissioned:22 July 1945
Decommissioned:9 April 1948
Recommissioned:27 January 1951
Decommissioned:15 November 1963
Stricken:1 January 1974
Identification:Hull symbol: CA-135
Motto:
Non Sibi Sed Patriae
("Not for self, but for country")
Honors and
awards:5 battle stars (Korea)
Fate:Sold for scrap to Terminal Island's National Metal and Steel Corp. on 16 MAY 1975 for $1,036,089
General characteristics
Class and type:Baltimore-class heavy cruiser
Displacement:13,600 long tons (13,818 t)
Length:674 ft 11 in (205.71 m)
Beam:70 ft 10 in (21.59 m)
Draft:20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Speed:33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement:1,142 officers and enlisted
Armament:
9 × 8"/55 caliber guns (3×3)
12 × 5"/38 caliber guns (6×2)
48 × Bofors 40 mm guns (12×4)
28 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
Aircraft carried:Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplane
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Official nameUSS Los Angeles Naval Monument (John S. Gibson Jr. Park)
The second USS San Juan (CL-54), and the first to be named for the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was an Atlanta-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 15 May 1940 by the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Fore River), Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 6 September 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Margarita Coll de Santori; and commissioned on 28 February 1942, Captain James E. Maher in command.
1942
After shakedown in the Atlantic, San Juan departed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 5 June 1942 as part of a carrier task group formed around Wasp and bound for the Pacific. The group got underway from San Diego on 30 June escorting a large group of troop transports destined for the Solomon Islands where the Navy was about to launch the first major American amphibious operation of the war.[3]
Following rehearsal in the Fiji Islands, San Juan provided gunfire support for the landings at Tulagi on 7 August 1942. On the night of 8–9 August, she was patrolling the eastern approaches to the transport area between Tulagi and Guadalcanal, with Admiral Norman Scott embarked,[4] when gun flashes indicated that fighting was taking place in the western approaches. The action turned out to be the Battle of Savo Island, in which an enemy cruiser force sank four Allied cruisers. San Juan retired from the forward area with the empty transports on the 9th and escorted them to Noumea.
She then rejoined Wasp and operated with the carrier force for several weeks between the New Hebrides and the Solomons, on guard against a Japanese carrier attack. However, when this strike materialized on 24 August, San Juan had withdrawn to refuel and thus missed the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Enterprise was hit in the battle, and San Juan, which had damaged a gun mount off Guadalcanal, escorted the carrier to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 10 September 1942.[3]
On 5 October, the cruiser again headed for the South Pacific, stopping first at Funafuti in the Ellice Islands to deliver a deck load of 20 mm guns to the marines who had just landed there. She then carried out a raid through the Gilberts sinking two Japanese patrol vessels on 16 October. Disembarking Japanese prisoners at Espiritu Santo, the cruiser joined Enterprise on the 23rd. Three days later, after patrol planes had made contact with enemy carrier forces, the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands was fought in which Hornet was lost and Enterprise damaged while the Japanese suffered severe losses in aircraft and pilots. During the last dive-bombing attack on the formation, one bomb passed through San Juan's stern, flooding several compartments and damaging, though not disabling, her rudder. She arrived at Nouméa with the task force on 30 October and then spent ten days at Sydney, Australia, receiving permanent repairs. San Juan joined Saratoga at Nadi, Viti Levu Island, in the Fijis on 24 November.[3]
1943
From December 1942 to June 1943, San Juan was based at Nouméa and operated in the Coral Sea, both with carrier groups and alone. At the end of June 1943, during the occupation of New Georgia, San Juan's carrier group patrolled the Coral Sea for 26 days to prevent enemy interference. Late in July, the force made a quick stop at Nouméa and moved to the New Hebrides, first to Havannah Harbor, Efate, and later to Espiritu Santo.[3]
On 1 November, the Saratoga group, including San Juan, neutralized airfields on Bougainville and Rabaul while Allied forces landed on Bougainville. In the middle of November, the task group acted as a covering force for the occupation of the Gilberts. San Juan then joined Essex on a raid on Kwajalein in the Marshalls, fighting off persistent torpedo plane attacks on 4–5 December. Detached on 6 December, the cruiser returned to the United States for overhaul at Mare Island.[3]
1944
San Juan rejoined Saratoga off Pearl Harbor on 19 January 1944 and the force covered the occupation of Eniwetok in February. San Juan next escorted Yorktown and Lexington in strikes on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi on 30 March and 1 April. On 7 April, the cruiser joined the new Hornet (CV-12), which covered the landings at Hollandia in April and then struck at Truk on 29–30 April. After returning to bases in the Marshalls, the Hornet group began support of the Marianas campaign in early June, striking at Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima in the Bonins, while American troops landed on Saipan. San Juan helped guard her group during the Battle of the Philippine Sea when American naval air power decisively defeated a Japanese counterattack to save the Marianas, and, in doing so, all but wiped out Japanese naval air strength.[3]
After a short stop at Eniwetok, San Juan escorted Wasp and Franklin during July as they covered the capture of Guam with strikes on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima. After a strike on Palau and Ulithi, San Juan was ordered to San Francisco for overhaul, and departed from Eniwetok on 4 August escorting Yorktown.[3]
Following refresher training at San Diego and Pearl Harbor, San Juan joined Lexington's task group at Ulithi on 21 November. In early December, she screened the carriers in strikes on Formosa and Luzon in support of landings on Mindoro. During this operation, she was sent alone within scouting range of Japanese airfields in an effort to draw out Japanese aircraft by radio deception, but none rose to the bait. On 18–19 December, the force was battered by a typhoon, and returned to Ulithi on Christmas Eve.[3]
1945
Underway again six days later, the carriers covered the occupation of Luzon with strikes on Formosa, Okinawa, and Luzon from 3–9 January 1945, and then from 10–20 January raided ports and shipping in the South China Sea, particularly Saigon, Cam Ranh Bay, and Hong Kong. After replenishing at Ulithi, San Juan escorted Hornet in air strikes on Tokyo during the Iwo Jima operation in February and then returned to Ulithi on 1 March to prepare for the Okinawa invasion.[3]
San Juan rejoined Hornet on 22 March and, until 30 April, operated with her to the north and east of Nansei Shoto, interrupting her regular occupation of supporting air strikes and replenishment at sea with a bombardment, on 21 April, of Minami Daito Shima, a small island about 180 mi (290 km) from Okinawa. Planes from San Juan's group helped sink the giant Yamato on 7 April. After nine days at Ulithi, the Hornet group was back on station off Nansei Shoto for strikes on targets in Japan. San Juan arrived in Leyte Gulf on 13 June for repairs and then joined Bennington, on 1 July for more strikes on the Japanese home islands. She was at sea when the news of the Japanese capitulation was received on 15 August, and, on the 27th, after 59 days at sea, she joined the van forces for the triumphal entry of the 3rd Fleet into Sagami Wan, just outside Tokyo Bay.[3]
San Juan's embarked unit commander, Commodore Rodger W. Simpson, was assigned responsibility for freeing, caring for, and evacuating Allied prisoners of war in Japan. On 29 August, the ship entered Tokyo Bay and landed parties which liberated prisoners at camps at Omori and Ofuna and the Shanagawa hospital. The former prisoners were transferred to hospital ships Benevolence and Rescue. After evacuating camps in the Tokyo Bay area, San Juan moved to the Nagoya-Hamamatsu area to the south and then to the Sendai-Kamanishi area to the north. On completing her liberation duty, the cruiser moored on 23 September next to the last Japanese battleship, Nagato, at Yokosuka shifting to an outer anchorage there on 28 October. She sailed for the United States on 14 November, disembarked Commodore Simpson at Pearl Harbor, and continued to the US with homewardbound troops, arriving on 29 November. Three days later, she sailed on "Magic Carpet" duty to Nouméa and Tutuila, returning to San Pedro, California, on 9 January 1946 with a full load of troops.[3]
Decommissioning and sale
The cruiser arrived at Bremerton, Washington, for inactivation on 24 January 1946, and was decommissioned and placed in reserve there on 9 November 1946. San Juan was redesignated CLAA-54 on 28 February 1949. She was struck from the Navy list on 1 March 1959 and sold on 31 October 1961 to National Metal and Steel Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, for scrapping.[3]
Awards
San Juan received 13 battle stars for her World War II service
Name:San Juan
Namesake:The Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Builder:Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
La
clase de cruceros nucleares de misiles guiados Kirov es una clase de
cruceros de propulsión nuclear (CGN) de la Armada de la Federación Rusa.
Es el buque más grande y armado en activo del mundo descontando a los
portaaviones y algunas clases de buques anfibios y submarinos. Fueron
construidos para la Armada Soviética. En Rusia al cabeza de clase Kirov
se le designó Project 1144 Orlan (Águila Marina) y los otros cuatro
previstos (Frunze, Kalinin, Yuri Andropov y Kuznetsov) Project 1144.2 al
ser mejoras de la versión inicial. Es similar en tamaño a los
portaaviones de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
La
Marina Rusa los clasifica oficialmente como Raketnyy Kreyser (RKR, en
ruso Crucero de Misiles) aunque por su tamaño y armamento sería
apropiado definirlo como Tyazholiy Raketnyy Kreyser (TRKR) o crucero
pesado de misiles guiados. En desplazamiento, pero no en armamento, es
comparable con los cruceros de batalla clase Alaska (1944-1947) de la
Marina de los Estados Unidos. La aparición del Kirov provocó la
reactivación y modernización de los acorazados de la clase Iowa a
mediados de los años 80 con la ampliación de su armamento de cañones con
32 misiles de crucero BGM-109 Tomahawk y 16 RGM-84 Harpoon.
El casco de la clase Kirov ha servido como base para el buque de mando SSV-33 Ural.
Unidades construidas
Proyecto 1144
Kirov, renombrado Admiral Ushakov. Número de identificación: 090
Proyecto 1144.2
Frunze, renombrado Admiral Lazarev. Número de identificación: 015 43.126545°0′0″N 132.330907°0′0″E
Kalinin, renombrado Admiral Nakhimov. Número de identificación:080
Yuri Andropov, renombrado Pyotr Velikiy. Número de identificación: 099 69°5′8″N 33°25′32″E
Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, nunca iniciado.
Armamento y sistemas de radar
Kirov/Admiral Ushakov junto al crucero Marshal Ustinov.
Dentro de cada unidad y versión existen varias diferencias que impiden una lista de características de armamento únicas:
Puede
transportar misiles tipo "Superficie-aire" y misiles tipo
"Superficie-superficie", también puede lanzar torpedos montados en
motores de cohete, que son lanzados al aire como un misil convencional y
luego, se sumergen bajo el mar, para combatir contra submarinos
enemigos, todos los misiles van montados en silos verticales de
lanzamiento, con el Sistema de lanzamiento vertical, cubiertos con
varias compuertas blindadas, que se abren al costado, en forma similar a
los submarinos misileros, para lanzar los misiles sobre la cubierta del
barco en forma continua:
Admiral Ushakov (090) Sistemas de radar complejo de radar MR-800 Flag radar MR-600 Voskhod
radar MR-700 Fregat-M
Sistemas
de Armamento 20 misiles SSM P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) montados
en la proa en un sistema de lanzamiento VLS (Vertical Launching System,
sistema de lanzamiento vertical)
96 misiles SAM S-300F Fort (SA-N-6 Grumble)
40 misiles SAM Osa-M (SA-N-4 Gecko)
2 cañones AK-100 de 100 mm
sistema ASW RBU-6000 Smerch-2
sistema ASW RBU-1000 Smerch-3
Admiral Lazarev (015) Sistemas de radar complejo de radar MR-800 Flag radar MR-600 Voskhod
radar MR-700 Fregat-M
Sistemas de Armamento 20 misiles SSM P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck)
96 misiles SAM S-300F Fort
40 misiles SAM Osa-M
2 cañones AK-130 de 130 mm
6 cañones AK-630M de 30 mm
sistema ASW RBU-6000 Smerch-2
sistema ASW RBU-1000 Smerch-3
Admiral Nakhinov (080) Sistemas de radar complejo de radar MR-800 Flag radar MR-600 Voskhod
radar MR-750 Fregat-MA
Sistemas de Armamento 20 misiles SSM P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck)
96 misiles SAM S-300F Fort
46 misiles SAM S-300FM Fort-M (SA-N-20)
40 misiles SAM Osa-MA
2 cañones AK-130 de 130 mm
6 cañones CIWS 3M87 Kartik
sistema ASW RBU-12000 Udav-1
sistema ASW RBU-1000 Smerch-3
Pyotr Veliky (099) Sistemas de radar complejo de radar MR-800 Flag radar MR-600 Voskhod
radar MR-750 Fregat-MA
radar de superficie MR-350 Podkat
Sistemas de Armamento 20 misiles SSM P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck)
48 misiles SAM S-300F Fort
46 misiles SAM S-300FM Fort-M
40 misiles SAM Osa-M
2 cañones AK-130 de 130 mm
6 cañones CIWS 3M87 Kartik
sistema ASW RBU-12000 Udav-1
sistema ASW RBU-1000 Smerch-3
Despliegue
El
primer barco de esta clase fue el Kirov (luego renombrado Almirante
Ushakov en 1992) fue botado en 1973 en el astillero de Leningrado y
lanzado en 1977, comisionado el 30 de diciembre de 1980, cuando apareció
en el mar la OTAN le dio el nombre de BALCOM I (Combatiente del Báltico
I) para diferenciarlo del otro proyecto soviético denominado BLACKCOM 1
(Combatiente del Mar Negro I), futura clase Slava de cruceros.
El
Kirov sufrió un accidente de reactor en 1990 mientras realizaba pruebas
en el Mar Mediterráneo, no se hicieron reparaciones debido a la falta
de fondos y el cambio de situación política en la Unión Soviética,
posiblemente fue canibalizado para obtener partes para otros barcos de
la clase. Se tiene previsto su vuelta al servicio en el 2020.1
Frunze,
el segundo barco de la clase fue completado en 1984, y asignado a la
Flota del Pacífico En 1991 fue renombrado Almirante Lazarev. El barco
permanece activo desde 1994 y fue enviado a la reserva 4 años después.
Se tiene previsto su vuelta al servicio en 2020.
Kalinin,
el tercero de la clase, entró en servicio en 1988. Asignado a la Flota
del Norte, luego renombrado Almirante Nakhimov fue asignado para retiro
en 1999 y luego reactivado en 2005 y desde 1999 está en revisión en un
astillero. Se tiene previsto su vuelta al servicio en 2020 al finalizar
esa revisión.
La
construcción del cuarto barco Yuri Andropov encontró muchos retrasos en
1986 (año de su construcción) y no se completó sino hasta 1996, y fue
bautizado como Pyotr Velikiy (Pedro el Grande). Actualmente sirve en la
Flota del Mar del Norte y es su barco insignia.
Fue
visto en las maniobras navales en Venezuela en 2009, con nuevas
adaptaciones en su diseño, se incorporaron dos hangares para transportar
helicópteros Kamov Ka-27, y nuevos radares planos en la cabina de
mando, puede transportar misiles balísticos de medio alcance y misiles
antisatélites, en forma similar a los cruceros Clase Ticonderoga del
Sistema de Combate Aegis occidental.
Astillero
Baltiysky Zavod (Leningrado)
Países en servicio
Armada Soviética
Armada de la Federación Rusa
Estadísticas
Periodo construcción
1974-1998
Periodo servicio
1980-
Unidades planteadas
5
Unidades concluidas
4
Unidades canceladas
1 (Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov)
Unidades activas
1 (+3 en revisión)
Unidades dadas de baja
0
Características de la clase
Desplazamiento
Project 1144
• 23 750 t estandár
• 25 860 t apc
Project 1144.2
• 24 300 t estándar
• 26 396 t apc
Eslora
• 252 m
• 270 m en línea de flotación
Manga
28,5 m
Calado
9,1 m
Sensores
Radares: (Identificación de nombre OTAN):
• radar de búsqueda 3D Voskhod MR-800 (Top Pair), trinquete
• radar de búsqueda 3D Fregat MR-710 (Top Steer), mástil principal
