I read "missile detection system", not CIWS or missile avoidance system.
I'm sure it sounded good when the salesman presented it: "For only $1 million I'll throw in a state of the art missile detection system!"
What's the point of a missile detection system, if you have no way of stopping it? I guess that's what the sub is for.
Apparently Russian Politics can be fatal.
His other toys include his 3 or 4 other boats.
As for lighter than a Ticonderoga class.. probably, but by how much. That article mentions a belt of armor around the passenger cabins
This thing is a step short of a warship.
And when he gets it delivered, yeah, it might not have guns, but I would guess someone this rich and powerful, and slightly egotistical, won't have guns on it?