I’ve heard people call the Pyotr Velikiy, a Kirov-class missile cruiser, a battlecruiser but never a battleship.
It’s the size of a battleship. Like every modern ship however, its armor is only 100mm thick at most instead of the 650mm of the Yamato so it displaces a lot less even though it has to deal with the extra weight that nuclear propulsion comes with.
I noticed some media is using “battleships” just as the synonym for “warships” since battle-war seems very similar. Also there are no really consistent even international classification (not to mention historical) of warships. Cruisers, destroyers and frigates assigantion changes sometimes - with many modern destroyers being bigger than cruisers and frigate and destroyer being used kinda ambiguously. For example, US Arleigh Burke class destroyers or Chinese Type 055 destroyers are bigger than basically every other modern cruiser except Kirov-class.
I’ve heard people call the Pyotr Velikiy, a Kirov-class missile cruiser, a battlecruiser but never a battleship.
It’s the size of a battleship. Like every modern ship however, its armor is only 100mm thick at most instead of the 650mm of the Yamato so it displaces a lot less even though it has to deal with the extra weight that nuclear propulsion comes with.
I noticed some media is using “battleships” just as the synonym for “warships” since battle-war seems very similar. Also there are no really consistent even international classification (not to mention historical) of warships. Cruisers, destroyers and frigates assigantion changes sometimes - with many modern destroyers being bigger than cruisers and frigate and destroyer being used kinda ambiguously. For example, US Arleigh Burke class destroyers or Chinese Type 055 destroyers are bigger than basically every other modern cruiser except Kirov-class.