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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) [a] 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 ...
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 ...
The Minsk from the starboard side. Minsk World (Chinese: 明思克航母世界; pinyin: Míngsīkè Hángmǔ Shìjiè) was a military theme park located in Dapeng Bay, Shatoujiao, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It included the former Soviet (later Russian) aircraft carrier Minsk, redesigned as a tourist attraction. The theme park opened on 10 May ...
Russian aircraft carrier "Minsk" is seen at a port in Shenzhen on June 10, 2004. - China Daily CDIC/Reuters The park suffered financial troubles and eventually closed in 2016, with the Minsk moved ...
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 ...
A pair of armed Yak-38s operating from Minsk intercepted aircraft from the U.S. carrier Enterprise over the Arabian Sea on 16 December 1982. This event marked the first time Soviet VTOL aircraft intercepted American aircraft while armed with missiles. [1] In a maritime context, the Yak-38 was not limited to the decks of Kiev.
China acquired the former Soviet Kiev-class aircraft carriers Minsk in 1995 and Kiev in 2000. Minsk, along with its sister ship Novorossiysk, were initially sold to South Korea in 1995 to be scrapped, [10] but due to objections from environmentalists, [14] Minsk was resold to China in 1998 to be broken up there instead.
Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk; N. Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk This page was last edited on 17 September 2017, at 23:24 (UTC). ...