The Insanely Powerful Soviet Aircraft Carrier Program...
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- On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov slipped out of the Kola Bay fjord in the Barents Sea. Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the carrier sailed through the North Sea and down the English Channel in to the Atlantic before rounding the Iberian Peninsula and entering the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas.
A month after leaving Kola Bay, aircraft of the Kuznetsov began operations against Islamic State and Al-Nusra terrorist groups in Syria in support of the Assad government. It was the first time a Russian carrier group had undertaken a combat deployment and was the end of a long, complex and at times troubled road undertaken by Moscow to produce a carrier force which was hoped would one day challenge the dominance of the United States Navy; a dream that offered great promise but as of 2023 sees one solitary carrier rusting and leaking in a Russian shipyard waiting for the government to release funds to finish repairs to make it operational again. This is the story of the Soviet Navy’s carrier program, it’s origins, it’s highs, it’s lows and the fruits it bore for Russia and others in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Welcome to Wars of the World.
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Early Efforts
06:14 Helicopter Carriers
13:07 Jumpin’ Jets and Aviation Cruisers
23:35 Project 11435
30:37 Legacy
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Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade
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The carrier that needs a permanent tug boat escort.
Like the Brits? 😅
Is this a fast carrier taskforce?
I want to see those tugboat specs.
@@0ld.RichardBritain doesn’t claim to be a superpower though.
@@honved1 It sure tries to pose as one. Ditto FFrance and Germany. Chihuahuas barking from the porch.
@@0ld.Richard There is only one country posing as a superpower right now
This carrier was stolen from Ukraine before it was finished. The Russians never finished it or got the engines to work properly. The sailors have never had hot water. Basic amenities do not work, it is falling apart and has suffered multiple fires and breakdowns. The Russian navy has had over a century of catastrophic naval ineptitude. Truly comedic. Such as the time the Russian Navy attacked the British fishing fleet in the North Sea thinking they had reached Japan. Luckily they fired a good proportion of their shells but missed with almost all of them. This aircraft carrier could never be described as powerful. A powerful risk of breaking down. Needing powerful tug boats to accompany it everywhere. It is a dry dock queen that needs to be scrapped.
Russia literally has zero carriers at this moment. The one they have can’t even move. Literally
Actually Russia has never had any carriers. Admiral Kuznetsov is technically a "heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser".
... it has central or total heating...piece of junk. Nothing touches the power and might of the US Navy, both in numbers and superior technology. 11 US compared to 0.1 russian! haha! - more than all the worlds' powers combined!!!
Russia only needs to defend it's interest and not bully the world like the US. So no need for floating targets...
@@Triggernlfrl yes indeed Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine...🤦♂
Unlike the USN whose 11 aircraft carriers use nuclear power, Admiral Kuznetsov uses a goopy, tar-like petrochemical called mazut as fuel, leading to it leaving a visible trail of heavy black smoke that can be seen at a great distance. So if the Kuznetsov ever leaves its current drydock (doubtful) it can always be easily identified and tracked using nothing more than Mark I Eyeballs.
Mazut is essentially bunker c
can see it from space using the eye!
Ever heard of..... Sattelites
The ship smokes because it has a failed power plant design. The superheaters use a separate combustion chamber that does not work well and starves the burning fuel for oxygen. Stack gas leaks into the boiler room on that ship and it makes the crews sick. It is not equipped to accept shore power, so the entire time it is docked the main boilers remain fired and the stack gas accumulates below decks.
Current scrap value of the KantTakeOv is at least thirty to thirty-five turnips.
Russia's only aircraft carrier is the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov (Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov), which is technically a heavy aircraft cruiser. It was built in Ukraine during the Cold War and launched in 1985. The ship has been out of service since November 2018 for a refit, and it's unclear if or when it will return to service. Some US Navy officials have expressed concerns that the carrier is unfit for service. Russia is a paper tiger
It's not equipped for shore power umbilicals, so when it is docked the main boilers have to be fired to power the ship. The superheater design is seriously flawed and has never worked properly, they puff stack gas back into the boiler room and the ship burns high sulfur mazut fuel, the stack gas is like smoke from burning tires. The entire ship fills with these puffs of stack gas while sitting at the dock and it makes the crews sick. Eventually the boilers wore out, and to replace the power plant they have to practically cut the ship in half at dry dock.
Does anyone with any understanding of naval history look at these videos before they’re published? This video shows images of the British battleship HMS Warspite in its WW2 role while talking about a submarine of the same name.
Good grief.
LOL. That was indeed bizarre. WTF?
Ahahah thought the same… I am figuring in my head the ww2 battleship diving deep under Russia Cold War era carrier task group! LOoooooooOL
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The problem with the Russian Navy is that they can build such ships but they could never maintain them.......
Russia didn't build this ship. Ukraine did. Russia stole it.
The only ship yard possessing the industrial infrastructure that could build warships over 40,000 tons displacement is located in Ukraine (Black Sea Shipyard).
There are no yards in mainland Russia capable of building warships over 40,000 tons.
There used to be yards in mainland Russia in the past that could build huge warships like the Baltic Shipyard and Sevmash Shipyard.
But after the death of comrade Stalin the Soviet Navy was treated as a step child and the bulk of the defense budget went to the Army.
Hence the Baltic and Sevmash yards were downsized to save cost because they weren't going to build 70,000 ton (project 24) battleships anytime soon.
Currently the Baltic Shipyard could only construct civilian ships up to the 30,000 tons class and the Sevmash Shipyard only builds Submarines.
Yes Russia can expand those shipyards infrastructure to build 100,000 ton class carrier but that would be far more expensive than building the ship itself.
What will be even more expensive is the complete lack of engineering experience in Russia to build ships of that size.
@@legiran9564Lack of experience is right. The disastrous decisions of the past two years, has prompted an unprecedented braindrain from Russia. It's not just naval engineers they are lacking, it's *everything*.
Russia hasn’t built much bigger than a Frigate. All of their big ships are Soviet hand me downs. Mostly built by Ukraine.
It figures that their best ship was built by someone else.😂😂
Problem with the Russian Navy? If Russia can't produce a new tank or plane, do you think they will build an aircraft carrier? There is not, and for a very long time there will not be, any real Russian power at sea. If any time will be. Even more so, there are not, and for a very long time there will not be, any problems related to it. If any time will.
One of them became China's first carrier and the problems persist there too.
Actually the Chinese stripped out the Russian power plant from the Liaoning and replaced it with one of their own design and it has had no issues staying operational since.
The Kuznetsov usually has to sail with a large sea-going tug…because every time she sails, her engines breakdown.
The USN has more Super Carriers than the rest of the World combined.
It has the only super carriers
The Kuznetsov: a 40k space hulk in real life
What they’re not saying here about the Syrian war, is that the ship had so many problems that after a while, its planes were transferred to an airbase on land to continue their mission. Let’s also keep in mind that the Soviets didn’t have the funds. At no point in time did the Soviet economy exceed 15% of that of the USA, not mention the EU, Japan, etc. They simply couldn’t finance everything they wanted to. By the early 1980s, the country’s economy was in retreat, called the Great Stagnation. That led to their breakup. Afterwards, the Russian economy was, and is, even smaller. Today, for example,e, the USA economy is almost 26 trillion. The EU is around the same. The Russian economy is estimated to be around 1.8 trillion, around the same as New York State. But there are 16 million people in New York to spread the money around in, while there are about 146 million Russians in a vastly larger territory. It’s why Russia is so poor that most classifies as a third world country. The war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions are crippling it. And despite what you might hear, China is being very wary of helping that war.
Russia's economy growing 3.2%, US 2.7%. GDP Per capita PPP adjusted. US $68k, Russia $33k, China $20k. China 4 million STEM graduates a year. US 570k, Russia 500k.
External national debt (interest bearing debt) US $34 Trillion. Russia $304 billion (100 times less). US Debt x15 Russia's after adjusting for population and cost of living (ppp). Russia $100 Trillion in natural resources (most in the world).. US national debt increasing $1 trillion every 100 days. Interest on US national debt increased 35% in each of last two years. 2024 interest payments on US debt will surpass military spending for the first time.
The sanctions are harming Europe not Russia. Why? Russia has almost no external debt, vast natural resources, a large industrial base and many countries that want to trade with it. 80% of the world (by population) isn't sanctioning Russia.
@@goldreserve some of those numbers don’t even make any sense. Others are given in a vacuum and so are useless. It’s easy to look up some numbers, as you did, and try to present them as though they mean what you want them to, but they don’t. One thing you didn’t mention is that all the numbers given by Russia and China are suspect.
@@goldreserve Russia's "growth" is being fueled by it's war economy. The money for that "growth " is coming from the Russian well fund, the money Putin squirreled away for this war. When that money dries up, and at the present rate of consumption that will be another 9 months to a year, that "growth" will evaporate. Shoigu is trying to conscript 18 year old STEM students right out of school to fight in the Russian infantry, intelligent cannon fodder. Nobody except India, Iran and China want to trade with Russia and that trade is drying up. China's economy is in deep trouble. Look at satellite photos of China's docks. Shipping containers are stacked up 7 deep in some places with nothing to export. China can't survive without exports. China's housing bubble has burst, 1/3 of their economy evaporates with that. Your "facts" are meaningless. The US is posting profits, while Russia has posted losses for the last two years and the future is bleak for Russian businesses, especially in the petroleum industry. The US can pay for its debts. Russia can't. Russia's ability to procure materiel for its war effort is becoming increasingly difficult to find and increasing difficult to pay for while Ukraine is getting support from the EU and USA. Russia can't compete. Its collapse is inevitable, Comrade.
I know it keeps warm, campfires all over the ship
They're not individual fires, the ship is on fire. Again
How many potatoes does that thing cost?
Turnips 😂
Is that a sarcastic title for the video ?
It has to be.
The Soviet Union never had any aircraft carriers, they had aircraft cruisers.
The Kyev was a ridiculous concept, but I still love the design. So brutal.
Russia doesn’t currently have an operational aircraft carrier and the Russian navel flagship is sitting on the bottom of the Black Sea!!
I think it was only the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. That leaves the northern fleet and for a short while longer the one that will have to leave Vladivostok when China gets Manchuria back.
Just ask India how good Russian/Soviet carriers are they bought one and for a while there it looked like they were going to declare war on Russia in a attempt to get their money back.
And had to rebuild completely for x2 the price but atleast they now work.
Will give them credit they could build a ship, but not carriers. Its parked in a dock and likely wont ever be reused. Those things require trained maintenance.
It was also stolen by Russia before it was finished. The Russians had neither the equipment, materials or skills to complete the build.
The aircraft carrier is the only aircraft carrier that needs for tugboats to go along with its mission. How funny is that those Russians they’re so funny and silly they make me laugh they must’ve got into the vodka again.
Also, it’s the only aircraft carrier that you know where it’s going from 200 miles away by its plume of smoke ! If that’s not the funniest thing in the world
Is this a joke ? 😂😂😂
it's powerful? I hear nothing but problems with this ship
Its so powerful it destroys the environment with its mere presence as it passes.
Russian military leads the world in many areas. The Russian navy is excellent in many areas. Aircraft carriers are absolutely not one.
@@TheGrindcorps Look at the history of the Russian Navy. Catastrophically inept.
@@TheGrindcorpsYet the Black Sea fleet can’t dominate the Black Sea.
It's a mobile reef
One carrier that has been under repair, lacks modernization. Whats insane is this authors lack of truthful information.
One who served in the russian army never laughs at a circus...
Of course not. It's bad form to corpse as a clown.
LMBO Moskuva made a hell of an "impression" on the bottom of the Black Sea !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They should have named it the T-72 Tank.
The Russian Aircraft carrier is a complete JOKE. What a BS article. 😅😅😅
it will sink like their nuclear subs
I don't think 'Insanely Powerful' is how I would describe their carrier disaster.
If it can float , it can sink. A fellow navy vet told me that one. He was a torpedoman on a sub.
It’s a POS.
That aircraft carrier is a propaganda fable. Much like the T-14 Armada.
Is the title supposed to say "...Aircraft _Carrier_ Program"?
I noticed that as well.
I dunno if I'd dignify their efforts with the term.
Just remember, a sub with torpedoes can send it down to join DAVIES JOHN fleet in a hearts beat....
Is the title meant to be sarcastic?
Russian carrier??? This is a joke. 😂😂...
Lmfao. Russia has one carrier and its a shit truck. A straight up rust bucket.
As an American...I visited Leningrad in 1989.The Country and the Russian people that I met and interacted with were phenomenal, absolutely the best individuals that I have ever had the pleasre of meeting in /out of every foriegn port that i have ever visited ....
I think that the citizens are as normal and freedom loving as any American that i have ever met..
Simple kindly and trustworthy are three descriptions that come to mind
I woukd re visit that City any time for any reasonable activity and maybe st assiredly would come away thinking the same positive things as I have since my first trip yhere❤
43,000 tons is a small aircraft carrier. About half the tonnage of a Ford class.
Historicaly Russian navy was always the weak part of their military.Exept the submarines I don't think their surface fleet is able to much more than defend the coast waters of Russia.
That ramp at the end of the carrier deck was a good idea.
The Soviets even had the Graf Zeppelin German Carrier at War's End !
You they put it in a dry dock… that also set on fire and sank…
The Admiral Flaming Kuznetsov, you mean... thing is a floating crematorium! 😆😅🤣😂
The real power are the Subs they have. Maybe 😂
Looked at the title of the video and LMAO🤦♂️
Admiral Kuznetsov has been fitted with special landing nets on the deck and soon will be sailing the Donbas landing T-72 turrets.
What a joke. One of them used once. It needs a tugboat to go anywhere. It smokes so bad blind people can see it. It’s a dock yard warrior.
I'm just surprised it's still floats at this point.
I think it is still in dry dock so maybe it does not even float.
Didn't the dry dock itself sink?
The moskva is sleeping with fishes in the black sea.
Also putler wanted gold taps to all his rooms in his huge datsha rather then fixing the carrier.
4 tugs permanently assigned to her flotilla ...😂
Warspite is a nuclear submarine, your footage is of the WW2 battleship..
The admiral Knutsac has shown how backward russian naval architecture and engineering has fallen behind the developed world. Both China and India have been able to produce viable aircraft carriers of higher quality and greater service availability, russia should scrap theirs and buy one from India or China.
Maybe Russia is better off with Mutiple use warships aircraft that are cheaper to maintain and more effective than the behemoth carriers, unless they convert this museum piece into a drone carrier I guess..
I’m not sure if they used those Soviet Union war planes during there invasion war with Ukraine
If they build it Ukraine will create another submarine!
Are they aircraft carriers or are they Russian cigarette lighters
Insanely powerful? Lol
Insanely Powerful! Haha! OMG that is so freakin funny! This ship has been a disaster since it was launched. As I understand it this carrier is stuck in harbor and dry dock 98% of the time it was launched until now. It must make Putin have nightmares that the US Navy runs 11 carriers that all are 10 times the ship this one carrier is. That isn’t the funniest part, the US Navy has about 10 more carriers that are in shutdown or mothballed state. If needed they could be upgraded and put back in service that would make Navy have 21 carriers and they are currently building 8 more Ford class super carriers! At a point in 9 years the US Navy could have 29 carriers which would out number all the rest of the world’s carriers combined. Yeah, Putin must have nightmares about that.
Russian Gong Show of "military power"
You should have the music from Red October in this video
Is this some kind of joke? Even if this POS functioned (which it doesn't) and stopped randomly bursting into flames (it can't) , it's still HALF the size of the USS Enterprise which was commissioned in 1958! Hell, my bass boat has launched just as many aircraft (0) in the last 3 years as this turd. And my boat moves under its own power and has NEVER burst into flames! Yall wanna do a video on it? Hell, I even bet my sonar is more advanced 🤣
All malicious bass boat propaganda...
Part of the problem is the same issue the Chinese have. Experience. It takes decades and blood and sweat to learn how to run a carrier group.
Neither Russia or China have that experience.
When I toured the North Carolina years ago, I was told that the 16” guns required 16 silk bags of powder behind each 16” shell. Is that true for the New Jersey as well? Thanks for sharing, great video!
I think it is six bags behind each shell.
Was the Mucova mentioned the same one Ukraine sank just recently or a later edited?
That was a different ship of the same name.
@@TheWedabest Thank you. I expected that but wanted to be sure.
@jefftarwood4594 no problem. Happy to help.
Sovjet/Russia is a land empire so a major problem is that they have four rather split up fleets.
Uboats are much easier to move between them descreat.
Insanely powerful? Compared to what? A bathtub? 😂😂
Russia doesn't even have the funding, if they did build one they' can't use it in the Black sea nor the Baltics sea because it will be watched closely.
"insane" is the right word...😅
One of the main engines/groups has never started, the dark smoke plume from its funnel can be spotted from tens of miles, the living conditions are terrible, never fully resolved issues with air conditioning, WCs, fresh water, steam conducts... and it it caught fire at least two or three times....😅
And those are just the well known issues... can't imagine those which are still unknown....
"powerful" Soviet carrier. That is laughable to begin with. These things showed how terrible there are almost immediately. And these days can't even leave dry dock.
Well , they already have one don't they ? Hahahaha hahahaha.
Kuzia is a ship?
This ship is a shitbox. The only reason it is ever escorted is for when it inevitably needs a tow back to port. LMAO!
FFS , the least they could do is lay it up in dry dock
There are better jokes than this to be found elsewhere on CZcams.
"The *Insanely Powerful* Soviet Aircraft Carrier Program"??? What is really *insane* is that label of this clip. Clickbate?
What a load of BS. The carrier has spent more timein dry dock than at sea. Please nno more of the AI narration.
the STOBAR aircraft carrier doctrine of the Russian Navy is a compromise between limited capabilities & low operational costs . . . Russian Navy's doctrine revolves around it's heavily armed surface combatants & submarines . . . based on a layered overlapping line of offensive & defense capabilities . . . infact the Russian Navy classifies it's nuclear powered submarines as it's primary capital fleet . . . expeditionary mission profiles & strategic sea lift falls under the navy's tier 2 level of active deployment, be it peace time or some state-of-war like situation . . . operating STOBAR aircraft carriers was never it's forte either . . . rather it has always been a competition against the USN & it's legendary carrier strike groups . . .
Everybody knows that things a piece of junk
Remember the zumwalt? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Another craft to sale cheap to China and then converted to a floating park ?
The Kuznetsov is a joke. Likely will never sail again.
Insanely weak Soviet aircraft carrier program you mean
Insanely Powerful ?
I know it's politically untenable but why not send it to China for a mechanical overhaul? The Chinese seem to have better luck with it.
The entire impression of the Kuznetsov class and its development is completely incorrect and it is not remotely borne of the Soviet aircraft carrier program. It is a modified Kiev, it's the same hull. In fact Kievs were sold to India and China and converted to Kuznetsov class, that's where they got theirs from, only Kuznetsov and Varyag were actually built as a ramp equipped "missile cruiser with air complement" using a Kiev hull, the Chinese got Varyag which they completed themselves and then converted their Kiev to a Kuznetsov using Varyag as a basis
India's Kiev was bought as part of a deal with Russia to convert it to a Kuznetsov from the beggining, deleting the surface action element of VLS antishipping missiles under the flight deck and operating as a true light aircraft carrier, where the Russian Kuznetsov operates as a missile cruiser with air complement and has a very powerful missile armament. Thus the Indian version is a light warship and the Russian one a heavy warship, because it's a heavy cruiser armed the back teeth, the Indian one is just a light carrier. The two types, despite being of the same class should not be confused. But as far as Kiev and Kuznetsov goes, the Kuznetsov is an enlarged and modified Kiev, built on a Kiev hull and just about doubling its displacement. It is not its own design.
The Soviet aircraft carrier program is completely separate and has nothing to do with Kuznetsovs, except in one context as a training and experience proxy for the future actual carrier program since it operates fixed wing naval jetfighters. The actual carrier program was cancelled is what happened and Kuznetsovs were the only other thing that resembled a carrier, but it isn't what they are, they're not aircraft carriers in Russian service, they're fleet ASW escort cruisers expanding the Kiev role to include air screening on top of ASW, with secondary surface action support. They were always intended to replace Kievs, never to be a carrier class. In fact their SAM suite is the primary arm of their aerial screen role, and the fighter jets more an extension of that than an actual fleet air arm. The primary air arm of Kuznetsov is in fact its ASW helicopters, roughly about twice as many as fixed wing aircraft. They also do fire control duties for the long range antishipping capabilities of the fleet.
The fighters on Kuznetsov do not have a role of force projection, only as fleet air screening, ie. CAP and secondarily light interdiction generally of small vessels which may interfere with fleet operations or some minor amphib shore support although this element is largely undeveloped and was intended for navalised versions of Su25U ground attack aircraft in the future. Kuznetsov has always been operated in a training capacity and never at full load and combat capability, so generally less than 20 fighters and about 40 helicopters have been carried but its capacity is for around 30 fixed wing jets, ostensibly intended for 2 squadrons Su33 or MiG29K and 1 squadron Su25. Operating in a training capacity as it does it actually keeps around a dozen Su33 in two light squadrons and about four 2gen MiG29K for development purposes due to the Indian contract for those and its ongoing development. If Russian carrier programs continue it is assumed the MiG29K will replace the Su33 due to its technological updates, otherwise an Su35 would have to be navalised as this is this was based on the Su33 airframe deleting naval equipment and digitalising the systems from analogue. That would be expensive and India already paid for MiG29K development.
The operations in Syria were a special training exercise for Navy pilots separately from Kuznetsov as a combat element and largely superfluous to the conflict. Whether significant of continued Russian interest in a future, true fleet carrier project, or merely sabre rattling with NATO to suggest that it is, is an unknown. But it is absolutely not a normal operation for Kuznetsov to send aircraft to attack ground targets in any significant operation, it could never sustain this type of mission to a degree of any impact. Ground based strike and multiroles are used for that, in numbers and operated from the Russian airbase in Syria doing a lot more than the Kuznetsov air wing.
There are no targets Russia would require a fleet aircraft carrier to launch strikes from, their entire strategic military posture is defensive, which means primarily concerned with border territories rather than describing their attitude. Force projection on distant targets would be handled by the submarine or rocket forces, or in conventional terms by land based aircraft of both Frontal and Long Range Aviation regiments, since Flankers have literally thousands of miles combat range and fight as good as an Eagle.
The most fascinating thing about the Kuznetsov class is that it has better sea keeping than the Kiev upon which it is based and modified. The trouble with the Kiev and reason they're not popular with the Russians is their sea keeping is regarded as white water craft, unsuitable for extended ventures into the open ocean. Not as bad as the Moskva class helicarriers but definitely can't handle rough open oceans. Completely by accident the Kuznetsov was discovered to have improved stability due to the weight and bulk increase of modifications so much that it is a true blue water vessel, the first of its kind unbound to coastal and small sea operations, assuming the engines don't break down but if they don't it can do storms and act as its own dry dock afterwards like good fleet heavy warships should.
Also the Turkish International Treaty governing entry to the Black Sea specifically refers to catapult equipped aircraft carriers. No catapults, no problem. It doesn't matter what you call the damn thing. It was to prevent combined heavy carrier battlegroups from entering and dominating the entire regional air power with hundreds of NATO naval fighters and nuclear bombers. Helicopter carriers, amphib docks, ski launch carriers, all fine. Big NATO carrier battlegroups, piss off nobody made you the world police. That's the treaty and it's partly because, due to the Azov security district Russia may feel backed into the corner of going full pre-emptive nuclear on NATO if carrier battlegroups start throwing their weight around in the Black Sea, a very vulnerable belly of Russian strategic territory. It has their main military academy district there and their oil reserves.
"the Chinese got Varyag which they completed themselves and then converted their Kiev to a Kuznetsov using Varyag as a basis" - no, the ex-Varyag was built as the Adm. Kuz. sister ship; the Shandong CV-17 is an improved Lioning CV-16 (ex-Varyag) with a smaller island (superstructure) & steeper ramp.
Insanely powerful?..ha…ha
Yo, Wars of the World. You forgot about the Ulyanovsk class carrier, otherwise known as Project 1143.7
It was supposed to be a nuclear power supercarrier with a displacement of over 70,000 tons.
And the Soviets laid out the Keel of the first one in the late 80s.
However, after the Soviet collapse, work on the carrier ceased.
The Yeltsin regime then decided to scrap the carrier in 1992 after only 40%
of it had been completed. (⊙︿⊙✿)
What else is new with *reliability russian* products
Look at that nasty smoking pollution
I wonder if the Russians know that it is bad luck to rename a ship 😂 Maybe that's why they had so many issues jk 😂
The Admiral Kuznetsov will never go to sea again. Its air wing was transferred to Ukraine as well.
Should just scrap it.
Quit watching when I seen powerful describing Russian aircraft carrier.
Hahahahaha. This whole documentary is a giant middle finger to Soviet/Russian Navy. Using a modified ski ramp to help get their planes airborne? First landing on a “carrier” was in 1989? And that was when the money actually reached the military contractors (mostly). Now it’s just pocketed by some oligarch and the boats are repainted 🤣🤣🤣
Russia’s strength is in submarines.
That’s just a fact.
wtf are you talking about...?
😂