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''Molotov'' ((ロシア語:Молотов)) was a Project 26bis of the Soviet Navy that served during World War II and into the Cold War. She supported Soviet troops during the Siege of Sevastopol, the Kerch-Feodosiya Operation and the amphibious landings at Novorossiysk at the end of January 1943. The ship was extensively modernized between 1952 and 1955. She was renamed ''Slava'' ((ロシア語:Слава), ''Glory'') in 1957 after Vyacheslav Molotov fell out of favour. ''Slava'' was reclassified as a training ship in 1961 before being sold for scrap in 1972. ==Description== ''Molotov'' and her sister ''Maxim Gorky'' had heavier armor and were slightly improved from the first two ''Kirov''-class cruisers of Project 26, and were thus designated Project 26bis.〔 She was long at the waterline, long overall, with a beam of and a draft between . She displaced at standard load and at full load.〔Yakubov and Worth, p. 84〕 Her steam turbines produced a total of during her sea trials, reaching a maximum speed of , just shy of her designed speed of 37 knots, mainly because she was overweight by . ''Molotov'' normally carried of fuel oil, at full load and at overload. This gave her a range of at .〔Yakubov and Worth, p. 90〕 ''Molotov'' carried nine 57-calibre B-1-P guns in three electrically powered MK-3-180 triple turrets.〔 Her secondary armament consisted of nine single 56-calibre B-34 anti-aircraft guns fitted on each side of the rear funnel. Her light AA guns consisted of six semi-automatic 21-K AA guns and four DK machine guns.〔Yakubov and Worth, pp. 86–7〕 Six 39-Yu torpedo tubes were fitted in two triple mountings.〔Yakubov and Worth, p. 88〕 ''Molotov'' was the first Soviet ship to carry radar, a Redut-K air warning system,〔 which she used for the entire war. Soviet-designed Mars-1 gunnery radar systems were added by 1944.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Soviet cruiser Molotov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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