John Currin (JC) posted Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mDMfOzoLy9E/V56EdKgMABI/AAAAAAAASB8/tWF2xmCLGMU083TLlUOJyhqKP-gTGOAIA/AA%2Bjj%2BPYOTYR%2BV.jpg?imgmax=1024 Construction of the ship was heavily impacted by the economic problems before and after the fall of the Soviet Union and
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Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet
John Currin (JC) posted Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H8NDKfEovYM/V56E-yLfiqI/AAAAAAAASCo/9lJVrcbzx18xLH7cIShqlBw4zqJE2r14Q/AA%2Bjj%2BPYOTR%2BVELIKY.jpg?imgmax=1024 Construction of the ship was heavily impacted by the economic problems before and after the fall of the Soviet Union a
Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet
John Currin (JC) posted Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H8NDKfEovYM/V56E-yLfiqI/AAAAAAAASCo/9lJVrcbzx18xLH7cIShqlBw4zqJE2r14Q/AA%2Bjj%2BPYOTR%2BVELIKY.jpg?imgmax=1024 Construction of the ship was heavily impacted by the economic problems before and after the fall of the Soviet Union a
Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet
John Currin (JC) posted Pyotr Velikiy (Russian: Пётр Великий) is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators re-invented the term "battlecruiser" to describe these, the largest surface combatant warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H8NDKfEovYM/V56E-yLfiqI/AAAAAAAASCo/9lJVrcbzx18xLH7cIShqlBw4zqJE2r14Q/AA%2Bjj%2BPYOTR%2BVELIKY.jpg?imgmax=1024 Construction of the ship was heavily impacted by the economic problems before and after the fall of the Soviet Union
HMCS (later HMAS)[1] Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending the local coastline against possible attacks in the aftermath of the ‘Russian scare', of the 1870s.[2] She arrived in Adelaide in September 1884 and subsequently served in the Boxer Rebellion, World War I and World War II
John Currin (JC) posted HMCS (later HMAS)[1] Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending the local coastline against possible attacks in the aftermath of the ‘Russian scare', of the 1870s.[2] She arrived in Adelaide in September 1884 and subsequently served in the Boxer Rebellion, World War I and World War II https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fv0mLxl90I0/V56FWOPT2SI/AAAAAAAASDE/TIvmXt8feNI1kWpaSkZdXTFt2IwV_YUkQ/AA%2Bjj%2BPROTECTOR%2B1901.jpg?imgmax=1024 During July 1943, Protector was requisitioned for war service by the US Army. On the way to New Guinea and off Gladstone, she was damaged in a collision with a tug and abandoned. The hull was subsequently taken to Heron Island off the Queensland coast and later sunk for use as a breakwater. Her… on https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115825952045606932363/communities/103957417019711849907
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