(See) Projekt 23560 / Lider-Klasse

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War ja lange ziemlich still um dieses großankündigte Projekt geworden, aber anscheinend rumort man hinter den Kulissen wohl noch daran. Warten wir es mal ab...

Is Russia's Lider-class Destroyer Coming Back from the Dead?

The upcoming warship will not only be twice as large as the country’s Soviet-era destroyers, but substantially bigger than even the three Slava-class guided-missile cruisers currently serving in the Russian Navy. [...]

Reports emerged as far back as 2009 that Russia’s top military brass is mulling a brand new destroyer acquisition. Citing anonymous sources within Russia’s defense industry, Russian news outlets reported in the following year that development work had begun on a next-generation stealth warship. [...] The effort, dubbed Project 23560 Lider, received tentative approval from the Defense Ministry in 2013, with some defense observers averring that the new class’s lead ship would be laid down by 2020. These optimistic forecasts were dashed in 2017, following reports that the Lider class was dropped from Russia’s 2017-2027 State Armament cycle.[...]

But the Vice-President for Warship Construction at Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Igor Ponomaryov insisted to Russian media sources later that year that the Lider-class project is alive and well. [...] The scope of the project was reportedly expanded in 2019, with the designers re-imagining the Lider class as a 19,000 ton, nuclear-powered behemoth that would become the foundation of a modernized blue-water navy capable of projecting power across the world. [...] USC head Alexei Rakhmanov told reporters in the summer of 2020 that the Lider project is moving forward as planned, with Krylov State Research Center director Pavel Filipov saying earlier that construction work on the lead ship could begin as early as 2023.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/r...ead-194318

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