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- From: wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
- Subject: Re: Montreux Treaty
- Message-ID: <Bxo11K.5t6@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Cornell University
- References: <Bx7CJo.EJv@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BxEw4L.1MD@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BxID68.Low@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:39:20 GMT
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- From wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
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- In article <BxID68.Low@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
- janm@Moskva.docs.uu.se (Jan Mattsson) writes:
- >
- > From janm@Moskva.docs.uu.se (Jan Mattsson)
- >
- > wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene) writes:
- >
- >
- >>The Kuznetsov is officially a "Heavy aircraft-capable cruiser" thus dodging the
- >>requirements of the treaty. (oddly her sister-ship the Ulyanovsk is designated
- >>as an "air defense aircraft carrier" but the issue is unlikely to arise since
- >>she doesn't seem likely to leavy the Black Sea in anyting resembling a
- >>completed state.)
- >
- > I believe the sister ship of Admiral Kuznetsov is named Varyag.
- > Was Ulyanovsk an earlier name?
- >
- You'd think that I'd get that straight one of these days. (That's the second
- time I made that same mistake, even after I wrote a paper on the fleet ;-)
- Varyag is Kuznetsov's sister ship. Ulyanovsk is the full sized carrier that
- was under construction and is now scrapped. I'll try to keep them straight in
- future.
- --
- Tom Schoene
- wwo@cornella.cit.cornell.edu -or- wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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- Back off man. I'm a political scientist!
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