"Admiral Kuznetsov": the aircraft carrier or the cruiser?

Carriers according to the original plan represent a floating airbase. Their massive construction began in the twenties of the XX century. To provide air support to ground forces landed on foreign shores to protect them from the bombing – that is the main purpose of this class of ships.

When and under what circumstances in the Russian fleet included the aircraft carrier «Admiral Kuznetsov" that the foreign news agencies regularly publish as an illustration of our growing military power?

Country possessing colonies or conducting foreign policy require power of reasoning, were the first owners of these expensive heavy ships. The Soviet Union, because of its geographical features, is not needed in the mobile airfields. To protect its territory cheaper and easier to build a sufficient number of traditional land.

Aircraft carriers in the USSR were built in the 70-ies. BPK (large ASW ships) “Moscow” and “Leningrad”, then «Kyiv» significantly different from the "Nimitz” or “enterprise” and displacement, and length, and design. The difference between a conventional cruiser was aft, it was aligned under the flight deck, which was based on the helicopters or fighter jets with vertical takeoff and landing. The main function of the wing was to detect enemy submarines and fight them.

Today, the Russian Navy has a ship "Admiral Kuznetsov". The carrier does this and why it is in official documents insist on calling aircraft carrier? To understand this question, you need to mentally be transported to the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev the autumn of 1982. Here, in the homeland of Russian shipbuilders, is a solemn laying of a new huge Russian military vessel, which was going to be called TANK (heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser) "Riga". Then he died, Leonid Brezhnev, and his memory was honored by the renaming of the ship. Then perestroika began, and called the cruiser in honor of the leader of the era of stagnation was considered inappropriate, so he was “Tbilisi”. It was in 1985, and four years later the ship received its present name - "Admiral Kuznetsov".

The aircraft Carrier, according to the agreement of 1936, signed in Montreux and signed by the Soviet delegation has no right to cross the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. Nothing, we have the cruiser, he can.

The Ships of this class have a total of nine countries. Fifty aircraft can solve the most complex and diverse combat missions: anti-submarine defense to the application of assault strikes. For this purpose on Board, there are helicopters, and planes, and not some kind of specialized deck, with truncated flight characteristics, and the MiG-29 and SU-27, however, with a special naval equipment.

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In the Crimean town of Saki was built a base for training pilots who had to take off from the deck of the cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov". The aircraft carrier became a source of manpower for the naval aviation. Today, the Russian pilots of such flights became routine, at the same time lacked experience, everything was new.

Warships are built not just because they represent a particular military doctrine. In the modern world, the Russian fleet is protecting the interests of the country in all areas of the world ocean. To maintain a high degree of protection of the marine compounds, consisting of ships of various purposes and classes, and requires air support. This problem is solved by the "Admiral Kuznetsov". The carrier has systems, anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weapons, and its air wing can cover up the actions of an entire fleet.

As for assumptions about the aggressiveness of Russian foreign policy, they are groundless. If you evaluate the “Imperial aspirations” in the number of ships of this class, it is enough to compare the number of nuclear-powered attack aircraft carriers US (11) with the number “one”, and everything will become clear. Threats to peace the Russian aircraft carrier «Admiral Kuznetsov" is, but their country, if necessary, will protect.