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The list of aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union and Russia includes all aircraft carriers built by, proposed for, or in service with the naval forces of either the Soviet Union or Russia. Although listed as aircraft carriers, none of them (with the exception of the never-built Ulyanovsk ) is a "true" aircraft carrier ( supercarrier ).
It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight ...
Aircraft Carrier Kiev-class: Krechet: 41370 4 2 Officially a "Heavy Aircraft-carrying Cruiser". [116] 1143M 43220 1 [116] 11430E Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Lamantin-class 0 11435 Aircraft Carrier Kuznetsov-class: 1 Officially a "Heavy Aircraft-carrying Cruiser". [117] 11436 0 Incomplete hulk sold to China and completed as Liaoning. 11437
Soviet chemical weapons program (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Abandoned military projects of the Soviet Union" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Cold War aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union (9 P) A. Aircraft carriers of the Soviet Navy (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union"
The Kuznetsov class is the first Soviet carrier to be designed with a full-length flight deck. The ship's 12 anti-ship cruise missiles are located in launchers below the flight deck, just aft of the ski-jump. The aircraft carriers are of a STOBAR configuration: Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery.
Aircraft cruisers, also known as aviation cruisers, cruiser-carriers, flight deck cruisers, and hybrid battleship-carriers, which combine the characteristics of aircraft carriers and surface warfare ships, because they primarily operated helicopters or floatplanes and did not act as a floating airbase.
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 ...