Each carried twenty enormous P-700 Granit antiship missiles. Each, a Granit missile weighed more than fifteen thousand pounds. This was enough to include 1,653-pound high explosive warhead ...

The result was the Kirov-class battlecruiser, a nuclear-powered behemoth stretching over 250 meters and armed with a devastating arsenal, including 20 P-700 Granit missiles and 96 S-300F Fort ...