Biggest Aircraft Carrier of Russia - Admiral Kuznetsov

Biggest Aircraft Carrier of Russia - Admiral Kuznetsov

The Admiral Kuznetsov is the only operational aircraft carrier in the Russian Navy. Built by Nikolayev South shipyard, Kuznetsov ranks as the second largest aircraft carrier. It has a displacement of 58,500t to 67,500t.
The spacious 14,700m² flight deck of the Admiral Kuznetsov can accommodate Su-33, MiG-29K and Su-25UTG/UBP STOVL fighters, as well as Ka-27S, Ka-27LD32 and Ka-27PLO helicopters. The ship can accommodate 1,960 ship's company, 626 air group and 40 flag staff.
The Russian aircraft carrier is propelled by a steam turbine propulsion system, providing a maximum speed of 32kt. The weaponry is composed of AK-630 AA guns, CADS-N-1 Kashtan CIWS, P-700 Granit anti-ship cruise missile and RBU-12000 UDAV-1 ASW rocket launchers.

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🔴 Intriguing facts about the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier

▶Unique in its class
The Admiral Kuznetsov is an aircraft-carrying cruiser – in other words, an aircraft carrier with powerful missiles. Russia is the only country in the world with such a heavily armed aircraft carrier: the aircraft carriers of other countries are essentially just floating airbases.
▶The biggest
The Admiral Kuznetsov is the biggest ship ever built in the USSR or Russia, with a displacement of nearly 62,000 tons.
▶A ship with many names
The Admiral Kuznetsov holds the record for the most name changes of any ship in Russian naval history. Initially launched as the Riga, it was renamed first as the Leonid Brezhnev, then as the Tbilisi, before finally being named for the Soviet Naval Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov.
▶Ski jump, not a catapult
The Admiral Kuznetsov could have had a catapult launch, but for economic reasons military authorities opted for a flight deck with a ski-jump springboard for conventional takeoffs and landings of naval aircraft.
▶Aircraft wing provides onshore training
Back in Soviet times, a special onshore training center imitating an aircraft carrier's springboard was built in Crimea for training military pilots of carrier-based aircraft. For a long time, this center belonged to Ukraine, but following the controversial events surrounding Crimea in 2014, Russia has once again taken control of the center.
▶Standing up for itself
The Admiral Kuznetsov is very well armed. It needs escort ships, too, but not as many as its American counterparts. It can defend itself if necessary: its 12 Granit anti-ship cruise missiles, six AK-630 automatic weapon systems, two Udav rocket launchers with 60 depth charges, a Kinzhal surface-to-air missile system and a Kortik gun-missile system, prevent the enemy from getting too close, whether from the air or from underwater.
▶Aircraft carrier escapes
Following the collapse of the USSR, the Admiral Kuznetsov could have been inherited by Ukraine, which claimed ownership of it. In 1991, the ship, then assigned to the Northern Fleet, underwent tests with the Black Sea Fleet in Feodosia, leaving it in Ukrainian territory. However, the first deputy commander of the Northern Fleet flew to Ukraine at once and stepped in. The vice admiral gave the order to raise the anchor immediately and head for Severodvinsk. With its navigation lights off, the ship left its harbor and spent more than three weeks sailing to its permanent base without any aircraft and without two thirds of its crew, who were off-duty at the time. Having saved the aircraft carrier, the vice admiral rightly judged that the sailors would “catch us by train,” and that the aircraft remaining at the onshore airbase would “get there by themselves.”

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