Often described as battlecruisers, these nuclear-powered ships were designed for anti-submarine and anti-ship roles, primarily armed with the P-700 Granit missiles. -Of the original four Kirov ...

Their main armament consisted of 24 P-700 Granit cruise missile launchers. This powerful weapon, the Granit missile, is over ...

They carry 24 P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles as their basic strike weapons. One submarine of this project, the Kursk, sank in an accident in 2000. Tehran purchases Russian Su-35 fighter jets ...