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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I wonder how much a ship like that is worth in dollars.
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Really hard to say how much it would cost now to rebuild and replace since all these systems were designed and built during the Soviet era. You could compare current similar nuclear ballistic submarine costs and kinda scale it against similar US cruisers. Might be a really bad way to calculate that tho since that would assume Russians still had any of the tooling to rebuild a ship like that and didn't have to start from scratch.
Comparing two in production nuclear ballistic missile subs. The Borei class cost the Russian government roughly $750M per sub, against the equivalent US Ohio class cost of ~$2.5-3B per sub in current dollars. In production US destroyers cost about $2B each, but the Russian ship displaces 20% more, so I'd guess a cruiser like the Moskva would cost somewhere between $600-750M. Russia might just choose to refloat and rebuild the ship. Though with a potential Russian default I doubt they'd have any money for either.