Minsk is an aircraft carrier that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev-class vessel to be built.
Minsk in 1983
Minsk being shadowed by the US destroyer USS Elliot during her 1979 Pacific cruise
Kamov Ka-25 'Hormone' helicopters and Yakovlev Yak-38 'Forger' VTOL strike fighters parked on the flight deck of Minsk in 1986
Minsk at Minsk World, Shenzhen, China
Yakovlev Yak-38
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The Yakovlev Yak-38 was Soviet Naval Aviation's only operational VTOL strike aircraft in addition to being its first operational carrier-based fixed-wing aircraft. It was developed specifically for, a
Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk
…533 mm torpedo tubes 1 × twin SUW-N-1 ASW rocket launcher (16 nuclear-tipped rockets) 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers Aircraft carried 16 Yak-38M fighter aircraft 18 Kamov Ka-25 or Kamov Ka-27 helicopters Minsk (Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification…
A Soviet Navy Yak-38 landing aboard Novorossiysk
A close up view of the air intakes for the smaller VTOL engines
A Yak-38M at the MAKS airshow in 1993
Folded wing of a Yak-38