Russia Spent 27 Years and $5,000,000,000 Rebuilding Just 1 Kirov-Class Battlecruiser. She Might End Up As Obsolete as An Old Battleship

The Admiral Nakhimov entered the yard in 1999 and sailed again in 2025 — a refit that quadrupled in cost, outlived its sister ships, and condemned Russia's flagship to the scrapyard. Now the most heavily armed surface ship afloat heads for the Arctic, in the decade that showed what cheap drones do to big ships.