The Soviet navy, which by its power came after the United States Navy, although it did not pay special attention to the development of aircraft carriers, I created a considerable number of them after World War II. At the time of the Soviet collapse it was built or were on the stocks of nine ships of this type, and today only one of them can be seen in Russia - "Kuznetsov". Why did it happen? This question is given by Sohu.
As the Chinese edition, after the Soviet Union collapsed, seven of them went to Russia. Two units were helicopter "Moscow" class displacement 15 thousand. tonnes. They served with the 1960s and were worn out. In addition, it was difficult for the Moscow Times, and soon the ships were decommissioned.
Still got four aircraft carriers of the "Kiev". The lead ship of the same name and the first serial "Minsk" were purchased by China and are now working in the amusement park in Tianjin and Nantong. The third "Novorossiysk" was over 13 million. Doll. transferred to South Korea, which, wanting to learn this type of weapons, I take it apart piece by piece. As noted by Sohu, most legendary was to become the "Baku" (renamed the "Gorshkov"). After 10 years of renovation it was sold to India for 2,9 billion. Doll.
The sole remaining Russian aircraft carrier - "Kuznetsov", "Stolen" in Ukraine the day before the dissolution of the USSR
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Another two of the nine aircraft carriers remained on the Ukrainian shipyard, because it had not yet been built. Are willing to 68% "Varyag" was rebuilt by China in modern aircraft carrier "Liaoning".
He is considered one of the best of this nine aircraft carriers!
– writes Sohu, regretting, that the second aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk" displacement 80 thousand. ton was dismantled in the US, I am willing to 40%.
The construction of nine aircraft carriers was evidence of the power of the former Soviet fleet […] As a result, there was only one. Others are sold or disassembled. This indicates, that today's Russia is no longer the Soviet Union militarily!
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