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Originally Posted by Kapitan
a ship of its current ag not really its been mothballed 11 years on top of that, whats its pupose? do they need i?
Looking at it they would be better off building a dozen new d for the price it would cost to put this back to work.
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They've long been trying to put
Lazarev (WTF is wrong with good old
Frunze anyway, he might be a Communist but IIRC he was still something of a fighting General, while this Admiral Lazarev who is he anyway...) back to work, and I support them in this endeavor.
Somehow, I doubt you'll get "a dozen new" destroyers for the cost to dust off
Lazarev. Further, not only does a large ship look prestigious, but the Kirovs even now are still some of the most powerful vessels afloat, and if they modernize
Lazarev before sticking her back in the line...
They are also supposed to have some of the best C3I facilities in the Russian Fleet (they are supposedly built as flagships) along with the now deceased Kievs (second to the Kuznetsov maybe?) ... sure there is less to command nowadays but if you are going to go far out once more you'll need good flag facilities - for any tech level, datalinks can be made with broader bandwidth over shorter distances (which is probably why the pure shore command philosophy didn't work for the Soviets).
Finally, according to Japanese sources they are also something of a LO vessel. The extensive masts obviously preclude them being stealth vessels but what could you do especially in the 80s. As it is they chopped their 28000t displacement into a 2000t frigate RCS. Which might be even better for concealment (since it is intended to be a survivable C3 flagship) than trying to shaft it to nothing since AFAIK you can't shaft a 28000 ton ship to virtual invisibility like you can with a plane... so a full scale concealment might be a giveaway (Target the SMALLEST blip!).