Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

Russia initially planned to build five but later reduced that number to four. Only one of the four battlecruisers built remains in the books: Admiral Nakhimov.

What You Need to Know: Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, may soon return to service, reflecting Moscow’s push to bolster its naval presence amidst the ...

The Russian navy for nearly a decade has been trying to double, from one to two, its active fleet of huge, nuclear-powered battlecruisers. It’s not going well. The 1991 collapse of the Soviet ...

She was improved in a number of ways but still lacked armour protection. Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser. Big, fast and powerful, ...

One of the Soviet Navy’s largest and most powerful ships, the Admiral Nakhimov battlecruiser, is getting ready to refit and go out to sea once again. The Nakhimov will undergo a number of ...