the AK-630, not the P-1000. The hull of Moskva was pretty intact. It sunk days later on towing back to port in Crimea after tilting and flipped.
The AK-630 section can be seen gone before and after.
The Osa-M wasn't raised, indicating the Russian wasn't on alert.
While the port AK-630 was blown, two S-300F launcher on the starboard was also destroyed, but the port side launcher remain intact. BTW the S-300F it equipped with can only fire 5V55RM with range of 75 km and cannot intercept altitude less than 25 m. It's useless against sea skimming missile and not better than HQ-16 on 054A in terms of range or launch speed. In contrast the S-300FM on later ships including 051C can fire the 150 km range 40N6E or the 200 km range 40N6ER2.
Sometime back during demonstration firing of P-1000 in naval parade, it also failed. Either the system onboard is old, or they weren't well maintained. A Soviet Kashin class also sunk after catching fire due to mis-firing of a missile in 1974.
Slava class is a relic, a PLAN crew who toured it give his impression, to put it nicely, he felt tons of history.
The Ukrainian issue a stamp to commemorate the Snake island soldiers defying Russian order to surrender after the sinking of Moskva. I wonder what's the point when the Snake island soldiers had already surrendered in the early days of the war.
