Moskva ship in service since USSR times: the cruiser’s curriculum vitae

The Slava-class cruiser Moskva entered service in 1983 and then again in 2000. It is the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, after having been the Soviet one, even if its conditions are far from ‘ be optimal. It has been in the works several times, starting from 1998, but only for ‘retouching’ – as has happened for several other Soviet systems still supplied to the Russian forces – ordinary maintenance and extension of operational life, but not for modernization which would have been necessary and which has always been canceled. Read also The fire that broke out on board the ship tonight, following what Kiev claims as a missile attack, with two Neptune missiles, is considered to be the largest loss at sea since the Falklands War. The Moskva is 611 feet (186 meters) long. It has been called Moskva since 1995. It has anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as well as torpedoes. with the annihilation of the Georgian fleet by the Russians, it was stopped in the pipeline in 2016, but the ambitious restructuring plan had been canceled the previous year. Her state is judged pitiful by Western military analysts. The cancellation of the modernization plans continued. In 2018, Flot Prom (news site on defense in Russia) had generically indicated, among other things, that Russian ships had serious problems with the fire suppression system. The reaction of the Ukrainian military on Snake Island, strategic position for any amphibious operations against Odessa – which the Russians had sent to that country, in response to the surrender order given by the crew of the Moskva – is considered symbolic. The ship, after the closure of the Bosphorus, remained the main Russian naval asset to support operations in the Black Sea. Even more so after the Russian forces moved south.