"At the moment they are working out the logistics of removing Pyotr Velikiy from the Russian navy. The Russian ship is reportedly being decommissioned as the cost of modernization is thought to be too high. The Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) Russian nuclear-powered battlecruiser is docked in the Cypriot port of Limassol, on February 12, 2014. While no official announcement has been made, the Pyotr Velikiy (which is translated as Peter the Great), the only combat surface nuclear-powered ship in the Russian navy, is expected to be replaced by another cruiser, the Admiral Nakhimov, which is undergoing repairs and modernization, and should be handed over to the fleet in 2024, TASS reported, citing a source in the naval forces. The navy has played an integral part in Russia's war in Ukraine since its invasion on February 24, 2022, which has also exposed its weaknesses, culminating in the sinking of its flagship Moskva cruiser in April 2022. The decision is the latest in a series of moves by Moscow to revamp its struggling navy, including the ailing aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which has been plagued by issues and caught fire a number of times. This is a subset of naval warships designed for warfare on the surface of the water, with their own weapons and armed forces (and thus excludes aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, which can be much larger). The Russian navy's fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser is considered to be the largest surface combatant nuclear powered vessel in the world.
Russia might be forced to send the flagship battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy to the scrapyard, as the cost of maintenance and modernization is deemed too high, state media agency TASS reported this week.
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