Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy

History
Russia
Name	Pyotr Velikiy
Namesake	Peter the Great
Builder	Baltic Shipyard, designer Severnoe PKB
Laid down	1986
Launched	1996
Commissioned	18 April 1998
Decommissioned	May be retired when sister ship Admiral Nakhimov comes back into service
Status	in active service
Notes	Flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet
General characteristics
Class and type	Kirov-class battlecruiser
Displacement	24,300 tons (standard) 28,000 tons (full load)
Length	252 m (827 ft) 230 m (750 ft) (waterline)
Beam	28.5 m (94 ft)
Draft	9.1 m (30 ft)
Installed power	140,000 shp (100,000 kW)
Propulsion	2-shaft, nuclear propulsion with steam turbine boost
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range	1,000 nautical miles (1,850 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) (combined propulsion), Essentially unlimited with nuclear power at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement	727 Aircrew: 18 Flag staff: 15
Sensors and processing systems	Voskhod MR-800 (Top Pair) 3D search radar on foremast Fregat MR-710 (Top Plate) 3D search radar on main mast 2 × MR-320M Topaz-V/Strut Pair air/surface search radar on main mast 3 × Palm Frond navigation radar on foremast 1 × aft Top Dome for SA-N-6 fire control 1 × forward Tomb Stone (Passive electronically scanned array) 1 × MR-360 Podkat/Cross Sword SA-N-9 SAM control 6 × 3P37/Hot Flash SA-N-11 SAM control 1 × MR-184/Kite Screech for 130mm guns Horse Jaw LF hull sonar Horse Tail VDS (Variable Depth Sonar)
Armament	20 P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) anti-ship missiles 8 × 8 (64) 3K95 Kinzhal (SA-N-9 Gauntlet) surface-to-air missiles 6 × 8 (48) S-300FM Fort-M (SA-N-20 Gargoyle) surface-to-air missiles 6 × 8 (48) S-300F Fort (SA-N-6 Grumble) surface-to-air missiles 2 × RBU-1000 (Smerch-3) 305 mm ASW rocket launchers 2 × RBU-12000 (Udav-1) 254 mm ASW rocket launchers 1 twin AK-130 130 mm/L70 dual purpose gun 10 533 mm ASW/ASuW torpedo tubes, Type 53 torpedo or SS-N-15 ASW missile 6 × Kashtan (CADS-N-1) point defense gun/missile system
Armour	76 mm plating around reactor compartment, light splinter protection
Aircraft carried	3 × Kamov Ka-27 "Helix" or Ka-25 "Hormone" helicopters
Aviation facilities	Below-deck hangar

Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. She was initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) after Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, but the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators have resurrected the term "battlecruiser" to describe them, as they are the largest surface "line of battle" warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet.

Construction of the ship was delayed by lack of funding due to the national economic problems before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. She was not completed and commissioned until 1998, twelve years after work had started. By then she had been renamed Pyotr Velikiy, Russian for Peter the Great. Pyotr Velikiy has been known to carry two pennant numbers during her service: "183" and currently "099".