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Originally Posted by papa_smurf
Thats one BIG missile cruiser. Kinda makes our Type 45's look weedy.
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Frankly, I still don't understand why in the 80s they didn't just build a few more of these babies rather than playing around with the
Sovremennys. Of course, a Slava with its S-300 SAM and P-500/-1000 suite will cost more (and yes Zdhanov will have to retool or be given up), but then you get economies of scale, and there is simply no comparison between the combat potential of a
Slava and a
Sovremenny.
Heck, maybe if they bit the bullet and went up another couple of thousand tons, they might even have found the room to cram the full
Polinom suite in and they won't even have to play with the
Udaloys, and they can still keep the ASW missiles once the Vodopads come out in the mid-80s.