Nuclear-powered icebreaker
On 17 August 1977, NS "Arktika" ("Arctic") became the first surface ship ever to reach the North Pole. "Arktika" was withdrawn from service in 2008 after clocking up 175,000 hours of reactor operation time and covering more than 1 million nautical miles. Rather than be scrapped, there are calls for her to be converted to a museum ship, like her predecessor "Lenin".
List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy
The , the lead ship of the , was the first destroyer named after a living person—World War II Admiral Arleigh Burke. At her commissioning, USS "Arleigh Burke" was extolled as the most powerful surface warship ever built. "Arleigh Burke" is one-third longer and correspondingly heavier than the "Fletcher"-class destroyers of the squadron Burke commanded in World War II; but about the same complement. The "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyers were based around the "Aegis" Combat System, like the larger s. The "Arleigh Burke" class was introduced in four "flights": Flight I, consisting of "Arleigh Burke"; Flight IA composed of 20 ships; Flight II, composed of 7 ships; and Flight IIA, composed of 34 ships. The "Arleigh Burke" class became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyer class when the last member of the "Spruance" class was decommissioned in 2005.