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- From: ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
- Subject: Re: Carrier info.wanted !
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:52:41 GMT
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- From ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
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- > The former Soviet Republics also have a number of carrier-type vessels in
- > various stages of disrepair.
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- > 2 x Moskva Class (Moskva and Lenningrad)--very old, close to retirement--
- > operate only KA-25/27 helicopters
- > 4 x Kiev Class (Kiev, Novorosysk, Minsk, Kharkov(?))--early/mid-1970s
- > ships with ski-jumps for Yak-38 "Forgers" and ASW helos; some
- > of these are in awful states of repair and need immediate over-
- > hauls or scrapping
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- The Yak-38 has been withdrawn from service so these ships
- have no a/c to operate.
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- > 1 x Admrial Kuznetsov--full deck carrier, but I believe it has a ski-jump
- > as well; operates 40-50 aircraft, Su-27K is main fighter; now
- > under Russian control
- > 1 x Varyag--Still under construction, I think under Ukrainian control;
- > reports last year said it was to be sold to China, but all
- > parties involved deny it; would need lots of work to get
- > functional
- > 1 x ??--nuclear powered carrier under construction?
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- This one has been scrapped incomplete.
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- > 1 x ??--conventional powered carrier under con., like Kuznetsov
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- This one has also been scrapped incomplete.
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