The Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier, Soviet designation Project 1143.5, is a class of conventionally-powered aircraft carriers currently operated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and als
Admiral Kuznetsov in 2017
Kamov Ka-27PL ASW helicopter on board Admiral Kuznetsov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008
Admiral Kuznetsov underway in 2012. The shadow of a Ka-27 is visible on the bow.
Liaoning in Hong Kong in 2017
Ulyanovsk, Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a STOBAR aircraft carrier laid down at the now-defunct Black Sea Shipyard on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of nuclear-powered supercarriers
Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier
…protracted period of almost four decades. Two ships were originally laid down at the Nikolayev South Shipyard in the Ukrainian SSR, to be followed by the Ulyanovsk-class nuclear-powered supercarriers. Only the lead ship, Admiral Kuznetsov had been commissioned when the Soviet Union dissolved, and the ship then served…
Model of the Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
United States Department of Defense artwork of a Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier similar to Ulyanovsk, under construction
Yak-44 and Su-33 on the deck ATAKR Ulyanovsk