4 Points You Need to Know: Russia's Kirov-class battlecruiser and its only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, have become national embarrassments due to their outdated and inefficient designs.

The carrier also boasted an “antitorpedo system ... The “Grey Lady” also retained design features that betrayed its battlecruiser heritage, including armor belts up to seven inches ...

Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the carrier sailed through the North Sea and down the English Channel in to the Atlantic before ...

A battlecruiser might have as many as 250 missile silos, or the equivalent of 250,000 pounds of high explosives. That’s about a day’s worth of carrier flight operations. A major complication ...

In 2016, the carrier sailed to Syria — belching thick ... reported in April that the battlecruiser may be retired instead because of the high costs of Admiral Nakhimov's refit.

When the Battlecruiser II arrived, the packaging was quite beaten up. Let's hope everything is okay inside, considering there are four tempered glass panels. Pulling the Battlecruiser II out of ...