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A B-2-LM turret from the Polish destroyer Wicher. The main armament of the Kiev-class ships consisted of six 50-caliber 130-millimeter (5.1 in) B-13 guns in three twin-gun B-2-LM turrets, one superfiring pair forward of the superstructure and the other mount aft of it. The ships carried 900 rounds for their guns. [2]
Originally, the Soviet Navy wanted a supercarrier similar to the American Kitty Hawk class, but the smaller Kiev-class design was chosen because it was considered more cost-effective. 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.
Moskva class: Helicopter carrier: 1967 1996 Leningrad: Moskva class: Helicopter carrier 1969 1991 Kiev: Kiev class: Aircraft cruiser: 1975 1993 Sold to Chinese company. Converted to military theme park, then hotel. [1] Minsk: Kiev class: Aircraft cruiser 1978 1993 Sold initially for scrap. Re-sold to China as museum piece. [citation needed ...
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.
In 1984, Minsk, the Ivan Rogov-class landing ship Aleksandr Nikolayev, and Vietnam forces conducted the Soviet Navy's first amphibious landing in Vietnam. [3] Soviet cosmonaut Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko survived an aircraft ejection on the Minsk in 1979. On September 8, 1980, he was killed in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on the ...
Kiev-class destroyer; Japanese destroyer Kiri (1944) L. Leytenant Shestakov-class destroyer; M. NMS Mărășești; NMS Mărăști; N. Soviet destroyer Neustrashimy; O.
Kiev class may refer to: Kiev -class aircraft carrier (Project 1143 Krechyet) Soviet battlecruiser fixed-wing aircraft carrier class Kiev -class destroyer (Project 48) Soviet destroyer leader class cancelled due to WWII
Baku (Russian: Баку) was a Kiev-class aircraft carrier [a] [b] of the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1987 to 1996. In 1991 the ship was renamed Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Gorshkov (Russian: Адмира́л фло́та Сове́тского Сою́за Горшков "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov") in Russian service.