Putin gives you free reign in upgrading an old Soviet warship. What ship would you dismantle and rebuild?
Hard Mode: No copying the Chinese.
ski ramps in every fucking direction and four bridges. nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
>>34826045
>nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
So nothing out of the ordinary, good job!
>Upgrade the Kirov cruisers.
>Copy and build a Russian version of the Burke class destroyer.
>Scrap every attack sub over 30 years old. Tell ship yards to give me the most advanced, brand new attack subs they can build.
>Overhaul Typhoon class boomer subs.
>Build a destroyer that just has a shit load of S400 missile systems on it.
>Fill out fleet with helicarriers and radar/EWAR ships.
>Bankrupt country doing this.
>>34826308
Shit, you said ship not navy. Oh well my post stands.
>>34826045
Recommission the Mikhail Kutuzov because the world deserves to have an all-gun cruiser in service again.
>>34826045
Make the cannons shaped like penises
That way when I shoot the enemy I cum on them haha
That would demoralize them haha
>>34826328
Peru has you m8
>>34826328
the peruvian navy would like to have a word with you
Just strip it of all unnecessary weight and add missile tubes.
>>34826045
Take Tarantul class corvette and replace original anti-ship cruise missiles with Brahmos bc lulz
>>34826045
>Take Kirov
>remove Granit
>remove S-300
>remove Kortiks
>remove old radars
>install VLS for Kalibr\Yakhont
>Install VLS for S-400 (and make sure VLS can take S-500 in the future)
>install Pantsir-M
>install Poliment AESA radars
Arsenal ship - soviet edition(tm)
>>34826045
80cm guns everywhere and instead of fighter jets it carries 100 tiny midget subs armed with big drills on the front to penetrate hulls. Also it's coal powered and has eight mini nuke reactors just for the bridge and not for any other part of the ship.
>>34826045
>Putin gives you free reign in upgrading an old Soviet warship. What ship would you dismantle and rebuild?
with what money
>>34827065
Well, Funny thing, that`s an actual refit, awaiting this ship. Guess, your dream will come true.
Take Kuznetsov, remove all weapons, replace with booze and state of the art sound system. Party boat is born.
>>34826045
give me a Kirov class battlecruiser
add icbms
add other generational upgrades other anons said
add well dock if possible and stuff with patrol boats to counter somali swarms, etc
I'd do nothing and use the money for something else because I don't care about warships and that's not why the Soviets lost so they can't be that bad to begin with
>>34826045
>rebuild battleship potempkin
>staff with loyal party members
>add cannons and missiles
>¿¿¿
>aaaahhh!! motherland!!
>>34826045
> NS Arktika I choose you!
>Full refit and refueling on modernized reactors.
>replace cut out chunks of the crew quarters on the bow and stern (just behind the helipad on the bow) and build in two sets of 16 inch guns.
>add on short range missile tubes just foreward of the helipad. Replace whatever normal helicopters she normally has with two hinds.
>break ice and fuck shit up. That's probably enough HE right there to slow down the thing.
>none of that fucking tossing molotovs from a speeding helo. Rocket pods and incendiary rounds from fucking 16 inch guns from a couple miles away.
>>34826045
copy the US
>>34826045
Missiles. Shit ton of fucking missiles.
Recommission the Aurora, have it travel the world on goodwill missions as a sailing museum ship
BUT DEEP INSIDE THE HULL, IT'S ACTUALLY A SPY VESSEL, LOADED WITH MODERN SIGINT EQUIPMENT AND RUSSIAN HACKERS
>>34827581
this. I'd take a Kirov and make it capable of missile spam that would make Macross jealous. Either that or resurrect a Lun-class seeing as how they're classified as boats instead of planes IIRC.
>>34826045
Add retractable tank tracks and upgrade everything else to modern standards.
>kuznetsov
>DERAMP
>Add catapults
>Make the deck larger by adding a disgusting and questionable, yet functional tumor to the side of the ship
>expandbow.gif
>NUCULARIZE
>WEAPONIZE
>extrathiccstern.jpg
>Expand lower stores
>Replace ALL THE BULKHEAD DOORS AND WIRES with shit that isn't rusting apart
>TORPEDOOOOOOOOS
>Cannibalize different russian ships now made unnecessary by kuznetsov mkII
>Use these ships to build more kuznetsovs
>Cannibalize old subs for their SLBM tubes and extra turbines
>Make the deck and bridge airtight up to 600 feet
>U-400.blueprint
>Cannibalize ballast tanks from old subs
>Cannibalize all other ships to build more frankenetsovs
>Russian navy is now the most advanced navy in the world
>And only have a handful of ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmDYJBZZdc
ayy lmao
>>34826045
>Take beautiful Slava class cruiser
>remove the 16 missiles up foread
>replace with 32 switchblade missiles
>8x8 missiles down aft removed and replaced with 64 cell VLS (maybe more?)
>replace main mast to be a smooth large mast with Russian equivalent aegis radar
>replace the single barred two ciws up foread with 1 kashtan ak-130 ciws
>32 cell VLS up foread behind main gun
>add two more ciws up aft coz Russians are ciws crazy like japs
>convert hangar to carry 2 helos
>start fapping to the unbelievably sexy warship
>>34827776
A weapon to surpass metal gear
>>34827776
Kuznetsov can't be nuclear or
Else it won't be able to pull into Crimea
Nuclear powered vessels aren't allowed into the Black Sea
>>34827924
cover the reactor with a black blanket and tow it in with tugs. The blanket will blend in with the sea.
>>34827198
Only partly. The Nakhimov refit does
>remove Granit
Installed 80 UKSK VLS
>remove S-300
Installed S-300FM, 2 batteries (Peter the Great only carries 1 S-300FM and 1 S-300), can carry 1 4 48N6DM (Dal'Naya or Long range) with 250km range or quad packed 9M96E with 120km range.
>remove Kortiks
3M87-1F complex - 280 million rubles. [modification SPAR Dirk M?]
Updated Kortik/Kashtan - No Pantsir
>remove old radars
Radars updated to S-300FM standard, 2 sets.
>install VLS for Kalibr\Yakhont
UKSK
>Install VLS for S-400 (and make sure VLS can take S-500 in the future)
Pic related, the current system takes in standard S-300 bins so S-400 and S-500 will fit.
>install Pantsir-M
Deal was signed before Pantsir-M was finalized
>install Poliment AESA radars
Not as proven as Tomb Stone/Big Bird. Also the Poliment radar is only for smaller ships, the bigger ones was supposed to get Krepost but was cancelled/deaded/Keeled.
Other stuff includes
SIGMA - Battle network / Combat management system (Red AEGIS equivalent)
Paket-NK anti torpedo torpedo system
Minotaur towed sonar and Anapa-M anti saboteur sonar plus sonobuoys
etc
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/year-2015-news/january-2015-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/2310-russian-shipyard-sevmash-ordered-new-equipment-for-overhaul-of-kirov-class-cruiser-nakhimov.html
>>34826045
>Be beautiful Slava cruiser
>One small boat is colored green
>Destroys symmetry
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>34826045
>take the beautiful Klara class
>modernise combat system and ew
>add more ciws
>replace gmls launchers with VLS
>leave the rest because it's aesthetic and simply beautiful
Replace all main weapons with trebuchets, fling marines into combat.
Buy Chinese
>>34826045
Rebuild - probably from the keel up due to a fuckton of rust - one of the old Typhoon SSBNs.
Convert into SSG/B(K)N.
Top of the line reactors, majority of cells outfitted for a variety of large anti-ship missiles (Granit, BrahMos, Zircon, etc.). Sub remains capable of housing four to six ballistic missiles. Arm sub with multiple conventional and nuclear torpedoes. Sub is now made for the roles of being a missile platform and a hunter-killer platform. Hope the class of sub eventually replaces the Russian Federation Navy's current stock of SSNs as additional hulls come online.
>>34826045
>Hard Mode: No copying the Chinese.
Why not'? They do the right thing - take the old but still useful ships, tear off useless guns and install VLS launchers.
>>34828756
Oh, my, God.
>be roaming around, looking for pirates
>see ship in the distance with no flag
>steam ahead towards it, hoping to still see life aboard
>as i aproach, a russian flag is raised
>russian mariners are flinged onto my boat
>they take me in no time
>the might of the hive mind has grown
>continue to fling russian mariners at boats untill the sea is ours
>>34827967
>>Installed S-300FM, 2 batteries (Peter the Great only carries 1 S-300FM and 1 S-300),
S-300FM can use S-400 missiles, so it`s ok.
>>Updated Kortik/Kashtan - No Pantsir
That one is probably for the better. Pantsir, while require less space to mount, isn`t that effective as of yet. In a few years and modifications, that will probably change.
>>34829149
40km missile for Pantsir is shown way back 2013. I have no idea why is it not in service yet.
>>34829034
That's why it's called hard mode. Filthy Casual.
>>34826420
>>34826425
The Almirante Grau is still in service? I thought they decommissioned her.
Cool if she is, though.
>>34829149
That pic is fan made. Nakhimov does not have Redut.
>>34829224
It's literally the only viable option for Russia.
The next most viable option is buying straight from China.
>>34826067