Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev

The Kiev in Tianjin, China

Flight deck: 51.3 m

• Empty: 30 530 t
• Use: 42,100 t

4 x steam turbines TW 12-3

• 4 × 2 starter for P -500 Basalt
• 2 × 2 starter for 9K33M
• 2 × 2 starter for SUW -N-1
• 2 × 2 76-mm-L/59 AK -726
• 8 × 30-mm-L/54 AK -630
• 2 × RBU -6000

The Kiev was a Soviet flight deck cruiser. It was built in Mykolaiv and incorporated into the Soviet Northern Fleet on 28 December 1975. The Kiev was the lead ship of project 1143, were built by the four ships: Minsk, Admiral Gorshkov and Novorossiysk.

Description

They have all been officially designated as an anti- submarine cruisers, but were actually aircraft carrier in the U- defense role. The reason for this was the Treaty of Montreux, which allowed Turkey to prohibit aircraft carriers the passage of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. This agreement could be circumvented or undermined by the declaration of the ships as cruisers.

From their Western counterparts, they differed in the fact that the front deck area was not used to start the aircraft, but took up the bulk of the on-board armament. Ample deck space ( 189 m × 20 m) for the existing solely from helicopters and VTOL aircraft group was achieved via an angular deck. The longitudinal axis of this deck is inclined to the ship's longitudinal axis by 4.5 ° inclined to port. There are no catapults interceptors still available. In the hall deck aircraft, helicopters and missiles are prepared and served by elevators of different sizes ( max. 20 m × 10.4 m) and carrying capacity transported to the flight deck. The experiences that were made at the Kiev with the use of aircraft, were one reason the first classical Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to commission.

After 20 years of service, the Kiev was put out of service in 1996 and sold a year later to a Chinese company. Since 1 May 2004, is issued as an exhibit of an amusement park in Tianjin, China.

• Kiev 1986
• Kiev 1987
• Kiev 1988