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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 ).
The "cruiser" role is facilitated by Admiral Kuznetsov ' s complement of 12 long-range surface-to-surface anti-ship P-700 Granit (NATO reporting name: Shipwreck) cruise missiles, resulting in the ship's Russian type designator of "heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser".
Russian aircraft are seen at the Khmeimim airbase on Monday. Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies The sudden collapse of the Assad regime has raised questions about Russia's future in Syria.
Trial support vessels Project 11982: 11982 Trial vessel/Research vessel 2 Seliger: 2012 Black Sea Fleet [315] Ladoga: 2018 [316] Baltic Fleet [317] Hydrographic ships Project 860: Hydrographic ship: 1 Gigrometer: 1965 Baltic Fleet Project 861: Hydrographic ship: 13 1968-1973 [318] Project 852: 852 Hydrographic ship: 1 Admiral Vladimirskiy: 1975 ...
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 Minsk World in Shatoujiao, Yantian, Shenzhen, China.
The next class of Soviet aircraft carriers, named the Admiral Kuznetsov class, supported more conventional aircraft such as the Su-33 "Flanker-D" and the MiG-29 "Fulcrum". [4] Land-based aircraft such as the Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger" and Tu-22M "Backfire" bombers were deployed with high-speed anti-ship missiles.
The Russian naval system classifies its Kuznetsov-class ship as a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser because it was fitted with long-range anti-ship cruise missiles. Under the 1936 Montreux Convention , aircraft carriers heavier than 15,000 tons may not pass through the Turkish Straits .
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.