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Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov ( Russian: Адмира́л фло́та Сове́тского Сою́за Кузнецо́в, "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov") is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) serving as the flagship of the Russian Navy. It was built by the Black Sea ...
Specifically, they were all ASW helicopter carriers or aircraft cruisers, including the Admiral Kuznetsov, the only carrier still in service with the Russian Navy. Russia is currently considering building a supercarrier, code-named Project Shtorm . All completed aircraft carriers of Soviet and Russian navy have been built by Ukrainian shipyards ...
The Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrying cruiser (Russian: Авиано́сцы ти́па «Кузнецо́в» Avianо́stsii Tipa "Kuznetsо́v" ), Soviet designation Project 1143.5, is a class of STOBAR aircraft carriers operated by the Russian and Chinese navies. Originally designed for the Soviet Navy, the Kuznetsov -class ships use a ski ...
Unlike most NATO aircraft carriers, such as U.S. or most British ones, the Kiev class is a combination of both a cruiser and an aircraft carrier. In the Soviet Navy, this class of ships was specifically designated as a "heavy aviation cruiser " ( Russian: Тяжелые авианесущие крейсера) rather than solely as an aircraft ...
Kiev ( Russian: Киев) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) [2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1975 to 1993. She was built between 1970 and 1975 at Chernomorski factory in Mykolaiv and was the first Kiev -class vessel to be built. She is currently part of a theme park in China.
16 Yak-38M fighter aircraft. 18 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters. Minsk ( Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) [ 2] that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev -class vessel to be built. From 2000 to 2016 she was a theme park known as ...
Ulyanovsk. Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск, IPA: [ʊˈlʲjanəfsk] ), Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a fixed-wing aircraft carrier laid down on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of Soviet nuclear-powered supercarriers. It was intended for the first time to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Navy.
Moskva -class helicopter carrier. Moskva. -class helicopter carrier. Leningrad underway in 1990. The Moskva class, Soviet designation Project 1123 Kondor ( condor) and S-703 Project 1123M Kiev, was the first class of operational aircraft carriers ( helicopter cruisers in the Soviet classification) built by the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy.