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Originally Posted by FlameOn
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 that.
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The Moskva went through a mid life extension. Its likely that its classed as a billion dollar ship at this point. A cruiser like Moskva is heavier, and more heavily armed then a destroyer. For example the Moskva carries 16 long range anti ship missiles, 64 surface to air missiles, 40 short range SAMS, a multipurpose gun and close in weapons systems torpedo mounts and usually carries at least one anti-submarine helicopter. it has a crew compliment of 500, and displaces around 13000 tonnes.
The Sovremenny class guided missile destroyer as an example carries 8 sun burn anti-ship missiles, 48 sams, 2 multipurpose guns a torpedo mount and carries a anti-submarine helicopter. It has a smaller compliment of 350. It displaces about 800 tonnes.