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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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Yea you're right, Russians would probably replace with the Lider-class which would probably cost $1.2B each.