the Commander of the combat fleet of naval forces of Ukraine rear Admiral Alex Neiipp explained the refusal of Kiev from the completion of the cruiser “Ukraine”. He declared it in interview to the edition “Duma”, according to RIA Novosti.
“He won’t be part of the Navy — is the ocean the ship of the old Soviet project. All weapon systems which it stood, — all of them of Russian production. The cruiser is a big target, and no more,” said Neiipp. Also, according to him, for the release of such ship at sea, you need the appropriate software.
the Rear Admiral added that the cruiser was designed for destruction of aircraft carrier strike groups of the United States in the oceans. “We have such problems there, so to use it we can not. We need to destroy the Russian ships, and they have such carriers yet”, — he concluded.
In September 2019, the Ukrainian company Ukroboronprom has decided to sell “Ukraine”, as Kiev sees no need in a cruiser of this magnitude. It was noted that he was not able to operate effectively in modern conditions and is not suitable for use in the Black and Azov seas.
an Unfinished missile cruiser “Ukraine” project 1164 was founded in 1985 by order of the USSR Navy under the name of “Admiral of fleet Lobov” and launched in 1990. It was supposed to finish by 1994, but in October 1993 it became the property of Ukraine and was renamed. However, the resources and technical capabilities to the operational development of ocean-going ships in Kiev was not.
