1143.5 Kuznetsov
Note:
The Type 1143.5 aircraft carrier was built by the Nikolayev Shipyard, which absorbed experts from about 800 disciplines in the Soviet Union, and more than 7,000 factories provided materials and equipment. It is a masterpiece of Soviet scientific and technological development at the time. The Type 1143.5 aircraft carrier is the world’s largest ski-jump takeoff and conventionally powered aircraft carrier, with both an angled deck and a ski-jump takeoff deck; it is not equipped with a catapult, but can take off and land heavy fixed-wing fighters. The birth of this class of ships has made the ski-jump takeoff and arrested landing, a novel aircraft carrier take-off and landing method, appear in the world’s navy for the first time. In addition, the ship is also equipped with supersonic anti-ship missiles and a series of anti-aircraft artillery, with many unique and distinctive designs.
The ship was commissioned in 1991, and an official ceremony marking the start of construction was held on 1 September 1982. She was launched on 4 December 1985. She was first named Riga (Russian: Рига / Latvian: Rīga), after the capital of Latvia, but was renamed Leonid Brezhnev (Леонид И. Брежнев) in November 1982, and then Tbilisi (Russian: Тбилиси / Tbilisi), after the capital of Georgia, in August 1987. Georgian: თბილისი), until October 4, 1990, when it was finally named "Admiral of the Soviet Navy Kuznetsov" (Адмирал флота Советского Союза Кузнецов). By the summer of 1989, the hull had been 71% completed. In November 1989, it conducted its first aircraft training. In November 1991, when the Soviet Union was about to disintegrate, it was originally scheduled to belong to Ukraine, but most of the crew were drawn from the Northern Fleet, so a few crew members left the home port in the middle of the night and planned to defect to Russia after a storm. It set out from the Black Sea and quickly broke through Turkey, so it joined the Northern Fleet until now, and it did not receive carrier-based aircraft until 1993.
New units:
Ship: 1143.5 Kuznetsov
Aircraft: Su-33
Model source: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/yuktobanian-navy-admiral-tsanev-kuznetsov-384d26252a2a42e2a0347f58b3e20f36
Yuktobanian Navy Tsanev (Kuznetsov)
by Rhine_Lab_Muelsyse under CC Attribution-NonCommercial
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