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| Russia to help Ukraine finish Slava class cruiser | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 5 2010, 06:28 AM (637 Views) | |
| MSantor | Jun 5 2010, 06:28 AM Post #1 |
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Seems Moscow and Kiev are becoming closer again. link
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton | |
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| KFIR | Jul 5 2010, 05:31 AM Post #2 |
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Does the Russian Navy still has the Soviet-era Kiev-class aircraft carriers? |
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| MSantor | Jul 5 2010, 08:45 AM Post #3 |
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No. they only have one carrier in service- the Admiral Kuznetsov of the Kuznetsov class. Two of the 4 Kiev class VTOL carriers- the Kiev and Minsk- were sold to China as museums in Tianjin and Shenzhen, China, respectively. A third carrier of the Kiev class, called Admiral Gorshkov, has been sold to India and is currently being refitted by the Russians to be able operate variant of the MiG29 for carrier operations. -------------------------------------------------- The 2nd carrier of the Kuznetsov class, named the Varyag, was sold to China incomplete, and the Chinese are reportedly currently fitting it out for full carrier operations. link -------------------------------------------------- Kfir, Most of the answers to your questions are easy to find with a quick google search or even looking at such sources as globalsecurity.org. Not everyone on this forum can keep on answering these trivial questions for you again and again when all of this stuff can easily be researched by you on your own. |
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| KFIR | Jul 6 2010, 12:07 PM Post #4 |
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My question was more on irony because come to think of it... if the Russian Navy still has the Soviet-era Kiev-class aircraft carrier and Ukraine was already a separate state will they rename the ship class since Kiev is no longer a part of their territory or should it have been transferred to Ukraine's control which I doubt will happen for such an expensive big ship? |
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| MSantor | Jul 6 2010, 12:14 PM Post #5 |
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If you read the article, it was about the Ukraine's Slava class cruiser Ukraina, which would have been called Admiral Lobov if it had been brought into Soviet service. Your question of whether the Ukraine would have renamed the carrier Kiev -if it was in their navy- to a more Ukrainian name- is a moot question at best. The only carrier Ukraine ever had was the incomplete carrier Varyag of the Kuznetsov class. That was sold to the Chinese in the mid-1990s with the original intent to turn her into a floating casino, but plans for that did not come to fruition and thus the Chinese government then took over the Varyag. "Varyag World" link |
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| KFIR | Jul 9 2010, 11:37 AM Post #6 |
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Roger that!
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