T welve ships of the 10,000t "Leader class" are planned to enter service from 2023-25, split between the Northern and Pacific Fleets. They will all be nuclear powered. They will be fitted with the ABM-capable S-500 SAM and Kalibr (SS-N-27) cruise missile. Image for illustration purpose only:
Severnoye Design Bureau Project 21956 class destroyer.
Using nuclear power to propel a warship certainly has a lot of advantages in maintaining a world-class blue-water navy. With less need for fueling stations strategically placed around the planet, and able to produce their own fresh water on board the ship, the major reason to stop to take on supplies is for food, and various janitorial supplies as needed. Clothing is a more durable sort of goods, and replaced only at much longer intervals. The big deal would be on-board morale, and the beatings will continue until the morale improves.
Or the captain gets thrown overboard.
Ability to travel great distances without refueling. Great. But how about consumables for the crew? Still going to need to make port calls or UNREP.
Oh, and what long range missions will destroyer class ships take on by themselves? What about the rest of the fleet units?
Nice idea if you want to be perceived as bad-backside but I'm having a hard time seeing the practicality of it.
So this is why Russia needed some of our uranium ..??????
TO KILL US. GREAT ..!!!!!!
Because they've done such a great job producing submarines with nuclear propulsion plants...
Everything on paper, in the meantime they can’t run a real Navy.
It will, however, make it impossible to completely "darken ship" when most of the crew is glowing.
Russkie NUKE-Subs go down but don’t come bak up Russkie-Nuc DD’s just Destroy themselvss