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Putin Takes A Look At New Aircraft Carrier (Credits- Force Technology)

MEET THE ULYANOVSK: RUSSIA'S 85,000 TON MONSTER AIRCRAFT CARRIER || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

America's Nightmare: The Soviet Union's (Almost) Super Aircraft Carrier ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Paul Richard Huard)

Soviet proposed super carrier Ulyanovsk ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- K.E Cepreeb) Source- The National Interest Author- Paul Richard Huard Had she ever sailed, the Soviet supercarrier Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement and enough storage to carry an air group of up to 70 fixed and rotary wing aircraft. With a nuclear-powered engine—and working in conjunction with other Soviet surface warfare vessels and submarines—the super carrier would have steamed through the oceans with a purpose. Namely, to keep the U.S. Navy away from the Motherland’s shores. But the Ulyanovsk is a tantalizing “almost” of history. Moscow never finished the project, because it ran out of money. As the Cold War ended, Russia plunged into years of economic hardship that made building new ships impossible. The Ulyanovsk died in the scrap yards in 1992. But now the Kremlin is spending billions of rubles mod