Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Kara Class Cruisers

Also searchable as Kara Class, Kiev-class escorts, Nikolayev, Project 1134B.

Related time notes

  1. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    10:37Soviet missile cruisers served distinct fleet rolesQ&A
  2. Slava Class: Comment Response
    8:48Why Slava was not simply a Kara replacementQ&A
  3. Slava Class: Comment Response
    17:28A cruiser analogy for Kara and SlavaQ&A
  4. Kara Class: Comment Response
    3:41Why a warship needs strategic contextNotable Point
  5. Kara Class: Comment Response
    8:42The Kara class as a balanced-warship precedentQ&A
  6. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    3:06:10Which Soviet major warships were actually available in 1980?Chapter
  7. Soviet Navy 1918-1991
    4:21:18Slava cruisers filled gaps beneath the KirovsChapter
  8. Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?
    6:16Kara lineage reveals a design built around available systemsNotable Point
  9. Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?
    22:44S-300F capability came with magazine and modernization limitsNotable Point
  10. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    0:00Kara as the last full Soviet cruiser classChapter
  11. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    2:38Mykolaiv's shipyard underpinned two Soviet cruiser generationsNotable Point
  12. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    4:48An overlooked cruiser between Kresta and the prestige shipsNotable Point
  13. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    9:54Black Sea constraint and Pacific carrier escort splitChapter
  14. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    11:34Gas turbines and the balanced missile-cruiser fitNotable Point
  15. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    14:07A general-purpose cruiser built to backfill the escort screenNotable Point
  16. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    18:53Osa/Gecko point defense for surviving a counterstrikeNotable Point
  17. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    22:41Why the Mediterranean demanded a higher-tier Soviet cruiserChapter
  18. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    26:58Tracing Kara through the Soviet cruiser design lineageNotable Point
  19. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    28:07Azov tested the naval S-300F before the system maturedNotable Point
  20. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    34:45Why the cruiser label still matteredNotable Point
  21. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    38:43How Kara escorts made a weak carrier a credible task groupChapter
  22. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    41:20Nuclear armament did not erase the conventional escalation ladderNotable Point
  23. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    44:26Visible force commitment raises the threshold for attackChapter
  24. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    50:09Kara cruisers consolidated influence after presence ships arrivedNotable Point
  25. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    51:12Ochakov's final role as a Sevastopol blockship in 2014Notable Point
  26. Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?
    52:46From presence ship to capital ship to task-group deterrenceChapter
  27. Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?
    26:11Kara-class firepower and the medium-tier mismatchNotable Point