the plan was to modify and reactivate all of the Kirov battlecruisers by 2020. However, in 2012 it was reported that Admiral Ushakov and Admiral Lazarev would not be overhauled due to being in a state of "beyond repair". In 2015, Zvezdochka shipyard CEO Vladimir Nikitin claimed that it was dangerous to remove the spent nuclear fuel from the vessel's two reactors given the fact the ship had been given minimum maintenance for 34 years. In April 2019, Russia decided to scrap and recycle the Admiral Ushakov in 2021. Armament This ship had an armament of missiles and guns as well as electronics. Its largest radar antenna is mounted on its foremast and called "Top Pair" by NATO. Kirovs main weapons are 20 P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) missiles mounted on deck, designed to engage large surface targets, and air defense is provided for with 12 S-300F (SA-N-6 Grumble) launchers with 96 missiles, two Osa-M (SA-N-4 Gecko) with 40 missiles and the Kashtan CIWS (CADS-N-1) air-defence missile/gun system. Other weapons are the automatic 130 mm AK-130 gun system, 30 mm AK-630, 10 torpedo/missile tubes, Udav-1 (SS-N-14 Silex) with 40 anti-submarine missiles and the two RBU-1000 six-tube launchers. In popular culture In the film Threads, Kirov collides with in the Persian Gulf. In the novel The Hunt for Red October, Kirov is deployed to the North Atlantic in pursuit of the title submarine, where it has a close encounter with American aircraft. In Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, Kirov is sunk by the Norwegian submarine Kobben. See also , a Kirov-class cruiser, lead ship of a Soviet 1930–1940s class of conventional cruisers Admiral Ushakov (warship), for other ships named for Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov References External links Kirov-class battlecruisers Ships built in the Soviet Union 1977 ships Cold War cruisers of the Soviet Union Nuclear ships of the Soviet Navy Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard