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So a Kirov class Battlecrusier along with its crew is transported to the World war two era, what would happen?
The most modern configuration which is Project 11442m i think..Not much, Eastern front was mostly ground combat and Soviet union does not have spare parts and ammo to keep Kirov going. Out of curiosity, which configuration of Kirov?
Didn't kirovs carry nukes at some point?Nakhimov is still undergoing refit, so it would be Peter the Great, which is stationed in Murmansk, where I guess it could do a couple trips to protect the convoys or bait the german warships, before it was stuck to port due to lack of spare parts.
Honestly, Sverdlov class cruisers would be more usefull as they would still be an advanced ships (although not as nearly ROFL stompy as Kirov), but one that Soviets could actually maintain.
Granits could carry nuclear warheads, I don't know how many they had issued during peacetime.
So a Kirov class Battlecrusier along with its crew is transported to the World war two era, what would happen?
Indeed.I do not knew, if Kirow have any stuff good in finding mines,but i doubt it.It hits a mine The Germans made massive use of mine warfare in the Baltic and it turned out to be highly effective at bottling up the Soviet naval forces.
So,we had 3 scenarios :
1.Kirow escaped to Sweden wary of Stalin.Sweden as regional superpower,Stalin start another purge in 1945,not 1952.Otherwise, nothing change.
2.Kirow remained loyal and sunk on mine.Nothing changed.
3.Kirow avoided mines, german GA North destroyed in 1944,WW2 end in 1944 too,soviets take more Germany and Denmark.
With Kirow technology WW3 in 1950,Europe taken over.Africa and most Asia follow.
But - they still do not cinqer americas, so soviet union would fall for economical reasons about 2020.And historians would wonder not if soviets genocided between 20 - 60 millions, but 200-400 millions.
Only good side - at least thare would be no leftist in Western Europe anymore.
Soviet Union in 1945 simply does not have a know-how to reverse engineer the Kirov tech, it would take years for them to develop technologies and tools which would enable them to copy some of technologies in Kirov. It took Soviet Union three years to copy B-29, but that was a weapons system of the same generation of their technological advancement, while Kirov is two generations past their technological understanding, so for example the material science behind key components will be a problem for them (for the same reason the Chinese still have problems with manofacturing of jet fighter engines, despite all the stolen data), therby the most likely outcome is that they shave off a decade or more in development of some technologies, but no instawin mcguffin in the Cold War.
would the Kirov crew even help the soviets in the First place.All true, but the Kirov comes with the crew. And these guys know the hows and the whys, what works and what does not. All dead ends and mistakes can now be avoided - and not just technology, but politics and international relations too... They will need time to "make the tools needed to make the tools", but foreknowledge is bigger asset then just the technology...
would the Kirov crew even help the soviets in the First place.
Well, that's a good question, it's Motherland on one hand, but it's Stalin's Motherland on the other... And the dysfunctionality of post-Stalin Soviet system was by design and on purpose - to prevent anyone, ever, from amassing as much power in one hand as Stalin did.