Mate this video has the depth of a documentary despite it being less than 15 minutes in length. Well done.

Excellent recap of the ships weapons abilities but you left out it's alternative propulsion system, the two Bluewater tugs required to get it back to port should it wander more than 500 miles, 800 km out to sea

I like that you put this military equipment in tactical and strategic context. Thanks.

Excellent details on the Kirov’s, very up to date and well put together to explain the enormous capabilities that the Nakhimov and Peter the Great have. Looking forward to other videos on this channel. Cheers.

I actually yelled YES! when I found out you now have a youtube channel.

Love the content, keep up the awesome work.

Great video. This is quality, detailed, acurate and very objective. Nicely done.

Certainly one of the most visually recognisable ships of the past Soviet Union fleet (much as the USS Long Beach was to the USN), the Russians could've done far worse in overhauling and upgrading these leviathans of the seas. The fact so many of their greatest naval assets were built around the classes main weapon system was brilliant...then pack it with the other minor offensive & some major defensive power, that many lesser nations would be lucky to have throughout their entire military, was just awesome. The Russians of the Soviet Union era certainly built em big, and built em to fight. A travesty they couldn't convert the Kirov and/or the Frunze into floating museum's as marks of respect to the era they served in (as could've the USN with the Long Beach). Nonetheless an impressive video of a bygone great of the seas. Cheers from Sydney!!!!

Ow man you and dungtran are really inspiring me to make my own channel doing this. I love your vids dude.

Outstanding

Great video. So well balanced.

love these vids boss

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

Any requests? I’m thinking of doing all kinds of stuff, not just ships

@stouttom5

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 A video about cold war Battlefield nuclear weapon systems and strategy for the anticipated confrontation between the USSR and NATO before the soviet collapse. Always fascinated me what might have happened in that nightmare scenario

@kizzjd9578

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 not sure if you've done it, but something on the Japanese vs aus/usa in milne bay png ww2. My father's family is from milne bay and I have also been there. I've heard stories of the Japanese hiding their ships at night in normandy island behind one of the inside islands and they covered the decks with trees etc so the us couldn't see them.

@tomas.8711

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 Some of the more unusual battles fought by the ancient Romans? Tactics & technology.

I love how the Russians put every possible weapon they could fit to this bad ass warship.

Keep up the great work. Your Videos are fantastic 👍

Great vid as always, thanks!

Thanks for the video bloke, fantastic watch. Cheers

I'm here from Tiktok too, i really like your content. Very well presented video's. Keep up the great work

The most beautiful warship ever built bar none.

Great listen

Lol Ukraine said hold my beer with this subsonic sea sparrow.

Kick arse warships. Get on the Kirov book series, about a Kirov traveling back in time, sounds hokey but it isn't.

@shadekerensky3691

2 жыл бұрын

Need a title ASAP

They are beautiful ships. Elegant but deadly.

I think you get the OED award for the first use of "paradigmatic" in a tube of you video!

In your dreams, Russia... Kirov battlecruiser cannot even come close to firing its missiles against a US carrier group in a real battle from 500 miles away. Kirov is merely a sitting target against Superhornets carrying 4 Harpoon missiles each. Kirov will be simply overwhelmed.

Superb

Awesome!

Love the Ending. Now on Historychannel: "True Legends of Naval History"

Between his tiktok and now youtube I learn more from him than 10 years of history class.

@dudududu1926

Жыл бұрын

Why would history class teach you about Soviet battlecruiser?

Easy subscribe, well done mate! :D

Hey @hypohystericalhistory I’d love to see a video about the zumwalt class destroyers! Just an idea.

Loving these vids, from your tik toks

The Kirov class is synonymous with the WW2 Japanese Yamato Class battleships. These warships were the most powerful ships of their type in the world and impressive and scary to anyone that observed them. However, they were immensely expensive to build and operate. In the end these ships only were only a testament to how many torpedoes and bombs it took to sink them. The two Kirov's are equally as scary as the Yamato's were. They however are only two ships with one being laid up at any one time. In a future conflict they will be the attractor of every missile and torpedo that the enemy can throw at them. They will go down gloriously but serve no further purpose.

@shadekerensky3691

2 жыл бұрын

Well keep in mind that they work in battle groups that are speciically designed to hunt carriers with high levels of layered AA defense and anti-ship offensive capabilities so it'd be best not to underestimate them.

@antaresmc4407

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadekerensky3691 that and the fact that the Yamatos were bullied to oblivion by whole fleets, dozens of carriers and almost two hundred aircraft. The surprising bit is how they actually stood for that long and effectively saved the rest of their fleet by eating all the fire up, one can't really argue they were defeated by anything but raw brute force... If the kirov can stand half as much in modern equivallent, it'll still need a full carrier task group to take out!

@yonmok2966

Жыл бұрын

@@antaresmc4407 a few missiles were enough.

@fluffly3606

Жыл бұрын

Except the IJN were able to keep Yamato functional enough to score a damaging near miss on one of the CVEs at the Battle off Samar at a time when they could barely scrounge up enough oil products for a few Kamikaze flights, whereas I'm fairly certain modern Russian logistics will mission kill the Kirovs harder than any outdated Harpoon, Exocet or laser-JDAM ever could, all before he even leaves port

I've done no research on this but could it be that the boilers are heated by the nuclear reactor?

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

From what I’ve read? No. They have fuel oil bunkers for the boilers.

TY for not using a robot narrator.

Kirov reporting!

Hey man. What's your thoughts on doing these videos and having webcam on, like your Tik Toks (which I love)? Personally, it's far more enjoyable when you can see the person talking too (maybe because you can see their emotions, etc?). Just my .02

@purger6796

3 жыл бұрын

you learn less when you can see the person's face, humans naturally begin to use brainpower on interpreting and judging people's faces. I prefer not to see someone in video essays, just the content.

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

This way I can edit my fuck ups out!

I don’t know how much confidence i have in these after what happened in Ukraine

@davidholder3207

Жыл бұрын

Precisely my views

As you indicated in the Ukraine video no Soviet Admiral is going to tell the Apparatchik or Politburo that this fancy tech missile system the Yanks use, which we copied , doesn't seem to work as its supposed too, especially under Russian production and operating conditions. Looks good on paper and sitting on the water however.

Just about shat myself when I first heard 700 officers...

i still waiting for the Gorshkov 2.0 with 4 UKSK module.

@10:50 Well about that........

Be interesting to see just how Russia sees fit to deploy these behemoths once operational again? Will they be the centerpiece of a true blue navy or conform to a "bastion" fleet like the Black Sea fleet..?

a sitting duck for western anti-ship missiles

Kirov reporting ...

Type 83 should be similar.

Not so long ago, the US refurbished and updated four WW2 battleships! Now retired and in show biz!

seeing this makes it a incredible accomplishment that the UA army sunk Moskva with just 2 missiles. nice doc

@quinndenver4075

2 жыл бұрын

They didn’t sink a Kirov battlecruiser they sunk a Slava class cruiser

@timmteller871

2 жыл бұрын

@@quinndenver4075 They are similar tho

@raygunreagan2274

Жыл бұрын

Lmao no they aren’t

@bierdasbaum0911

Жыл бұрын

Promoted to a submarine

@golumrat9479

Жыл бұрын

@@raygunreagan2274 well their weapon systems are pretty similar, though their sensors cant really be compared The problem is just the uptake and maintenance of the russian military which is just appaling

Sinking Kirov's is a test at Annapolis.......................

An excellent presentation. The weakest link in Russia's military capabilities is the operational proficiency of the warfighter. Can Russian crews maintain and skillfully operate this massive ship? The fate for the Moskva suggests it's a real weakness.

@emmaegede1262

Жыл бұрын

@SWOBIZ you must be a Zombie 🧟‍♂️

So it slices -- AND dices?!

Still in refit

Too bad these aren't ever going to be fully modernized. I used to love these ships when I was a lad

Welp, this all feels like all show and no go with everything we’ve seen in Ukraine.

While the stats are "impressive" if you like that sort of thing, the practical combat power of a surface combatant that surrenders air superiority is basically nil. 20 shots, regardless of how fast or how big the payload is a woefully small number of missiles, a USN Carrier Airwing can launch 192 AGM-84 in a single strike that will mean even if the Kirov is 100% accurate there are still 96 missiles inbound. Cruising below the radar horizon is only an issue for Navies that don't have AEW aircraft, which of course the USN has in bulk. Large ships and undoubtedly beautiful ships but ultimately, useless ships.

@tvgerbil1984

2 жыл бұрын

The Russians are slowly replacing their Legenda satellite targetting system with their new Liana system. In theory, that would aid their anti-ship missiles in seeking long range targets.

0:20 Hate to get all autistic but how can they be Ships of the line when the whole concept of the Battle line is defunct.

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

It’s an analogy my friend

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

Like if I called special forces modern samurai

Would make a very nice hybrid Black Sea submarine.

When taken into context with PPP which is much more accurate than GDP the estimates of Russian military expenditure is close to 180 billion, that is 180 billion spent with less price gouging we see in the west. It also makes the Russian economy considerably larger than Germany and the fifth largest economy in the world.

@et1249

3 жыл бұрын

@Dodo The shadow economy of Russia is estimated to be about 40%, at least three times that of Germany, a lot is going on in Russia that does not reflect the true figure of the total economy.

@et1249

3 жыл бұрын

@Dodo Shadow economy is taken into consideration but is an estimate, in this case it is now considered that Russia's shadow economy is much bigger than earlier thought. My point is that the western powers seriously underestimate the real military capacity of Russia and an economy capable of advancing and maintaining it.

"The Kirov class battlecruisers are the largest ... active warships in the world today ..." ... um, larger then US aircraft carriers ? but well researched and presented.

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

No matter how long the script is, 5000 words, 15000 words, I always know that if use any imprecise language whatsoever, you guys will remind me of it.

But it cannot take on a carrier at all.

@shadekerensky3691

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong, it can definitely take down a carrier. Between its extensive, layered AA defenses and its heavy firepower, it has a good chance of taking down a super-carrier.

@SCP-5000

3 жыл бұрын

@@shadekerensky3691 lol, it can't even find the carrier.

@shadekerensky3691

3 жыл бұрын

@@SCP-5000 What info do you base that assessment off of? Because between the helicopters and its 3D radar, it would most definitely be able to find the carrier.

@SCP-5000

3 жыл бұрын

@@shadekerensky3691 The carrier or its aircrafts will detect your radar emissions at twice the range at which you are able to see them, because of atmospheric attenuation. The carrier can rely instead, on its aircrafts for scouting. It can also shoot down your helicopters with their aircrafts. You will find it hard to combat the carrier aircrafts because they can defeat you SAMs kinematically, whereas your ship is practically stationary.

@gogrape9716

3 жыл бұрын

@@SCP-5000 This ship is almost as useless as the Russian air craft carrier. Satellites watch it constantly and it is loaded with GPS markers. Missile bait.

Not a great start to your Video calling it a Battlecruiser, they are not. They are officially “large Guided Missile Cruisers”. Battlecruisers were designed to act as the Scouts of a Battle Fleet. The Kirov class are in fact much closer to being Battleships, they are at the centre of your Battle Fleet, and are the Flagships, not off Scouting.

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

Well, they are typically referred to as Battlecruisers by western analysts. This is because of their displacement and the fact that large cruisers were routinely referred to as battlecruisers. So, this is an extremely nit picky comment. Finally, battle cruisers were not initially designed to act as scouting vessels, although they were briefly used in that fashion is World War One. Their primary design goal was to hunt down cruisers and destroy them, which is why they were typically only protected against 8 inch armament. So if you are going to leave nit picky comments based on what name we should call a vessel, at least get your facts straight.

@Harldin

3 жыл бұрын

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 Irrespective of what they were originally intended for, the Kirov class was designed around killing NATO Aircraft Carriers and large Amphibs, so basically modern Capital Ships, not taking on Cruisers, Destroyers and Frigates. They are not Battlecruisers and being 25,000t does not make them so, like about 80% of the Battleships ever built.

Under estimate the Russians at your own peril.

@cosmo4698

2 жыл бұрын

:^)

@dudududu1926

Жыл бұрын

this aged like milk.

@LunaticTheCat

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Giants of the sea... nightmare of NATO and US... imagine all 4 of these Titans roaming the Oceans...

@Dog.soldier1950

3 жыл бұрын

Not for long. Hopelessly anarchism

@mushy111

3 жыл бұрын

I think Nato can deal with 4 soviet era tubs lol

@Dog.soldier1950

3 жыл бұрын

@@mushy111 Russia has the same GDP as Hungry and Poland combined or Australia. They are trying to fight above their weight

@mushy111

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dog.soldier1950 Thats true.

@rgj5832

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dog.soldier1950 although you are correct. I have come to realize that money just goes more of a distance in russia reference military spending. They have managed to keep a very formidable land and sea force all while developing new and modern technology across many sectors. They do all this with very little money. Economic sanctions seems to have made them better at producing technology and equipment completely at home and at a less expensive rate. As many import technologies were not available specifically in the microchip and computer technology sector. It's pretty easy to tell they certainly aren't the might they once were in Soviet times but I suspect they are well prepared to fight a local defensive war or small war abroad.

It’s now a dive wreck

@Creppystories123

2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is such a pain when you talk about the wrong ship

"they are built to take on entire aircraft carrier floatillas by themselves if need be" Just saying that sounds bad as hell!!! I could imagine a film of theoretical war made by Russia doing just that would be a BAD AZZ FILM 2 WATCH!!!

@Sharkmac42

Жыл бұрын

I mean yeah, if you're into the idea of watching a baby seal get beat to death because it thought it could take on a team of club wielding terminators, then sure. At least it helps that it's an evil, piece of shit baby seal.

@cliffwoodbury5319

Жыл бұрын

@@Sharkmac42 u have mental problems, but i still stick by the idea (no matter how irrational it sounds) that it would be cool to see in a film.

Looks like Russians did a lessons learned on IJN Yamato on what made.it obsolete . Today's threats of rail.guns, lazers and hypersonic missiles probably makes any surface ship obsolete.

@hypohystericalhistory8133

3 жыл бұрын

They certainly did something different here; either is was brilliant or misguided, because no one else took this route.

@gogrape9716

3 жыл бұрын

Missiles controlled by satellites in high intensity warfare would eliminate the Kirov within hours of the outset of hostilities.

Just don’t Saul it near Ukraine, it will be sunk

why is it that Russia has to modernize systems? It makes sense to modernize data integration because everyone has the capability to including Russia. What is curious is that everyone needs to update their systems to AI because there is potential for warfare. You, all of freaks intend there to be warfare. No person asked for that which will significantly impact their families. You who breathe warfare should do just that. There should not be warfare conflict in this modern world where everyone can simply talk to each other.