Flight deck cruiser
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The flight-deck cruiser was a proposed type of aircraft cruiser,, designed by the United States Navy during the Interwar period. Several designs were proposed for the type, but none were approved for
Preliminary design plan for the CF-2 type flight deck cruiser as envisioned in January 1940
Kiev-class aircraft carrier
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The Kiev class, Soviet designation Project 1143 Krechyet, was the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. In addition to its aviation capabilities, t
Flight deck cruiser
…a result, the flight deck cruiser concept was never revisited. Although no flight-deck cruisers were ever built by the U.S. Navy, the Soviet Union's Kiev-class aircraft carrier, developed in the 1970s, is remarkably similar to that of the original flight-deck cruiser design, featuring an angled flight deck aft…
Novorossiysk in 1986
P-500 Bazalt launch tubes on the foredeck of the Kiev. M-11 and Osa-M launchers (small disk) are also visible.
P-500 Bazalt launch tubes on the foredeck of the Baku. 3K95 Khinzal launchers (disks to front) and AK-100 guns are visible.