Carriers of the original plan are floating airbase.Their massive construction began in the twenties of the XX century.To provide air support for ground forces who landed on foreign shores, to protect them from the bombing - that the main purpose of this class of ships.
When and under what circumstances appeared in the Russian Navy aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov", a photo of which foreign news agencies regularly publish as an illustration of our growing military power?
countries possessing colonies or conducting foreign policy, which requires the power of argument, were the first owners of these expensive heavy ships.The Soviet Union, because of its geographical features are not needed in mobile airfields.To protect its territory was cheaper and easier to build a sufficient number of conventional ground.
aircraft carrier in the USSR were built in the 70s.BOD (large anti-submarine ships), "Moscow" and "Leningrad", then "Kiev" significantly different from the "Nimitz" and "Enterprise" and displacement, and length, and construction.The difference with the usual cruiser was aft, she was aligned under the flight deck, based on which the helicopters or fighter aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing.The main function of wing consisted in finding enemy submarines and fight with them.
Today, the Russian Navy has a ship "Admiral Kuznetsov".The carrier does this and why it worked in the official documents referred to the aircraft carrier?To understand this question, you need to mentally go back to the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev fall of 1982.Here, the home of Russian shipbuilders, there is a huge ceremonial laying of a new Russian military vessel that is going to be called TANK (heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser) "Riga".Then he died LIBrezhnev, and his memory is honored by renaming the ship.Then perestroika began, and call a cruiser after the leader of the era of stagnation considered inappropriate because it became "Tbilisi".It was in 1985, and four years later the ship received its present name - the "Admiral Kuznetsov".
aircraft carrier, according to the contract of 1936 signed in Montreux and signed by the Soviet delegation has no right to cross the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.Do not worry, we have the cruiser, he can.
ships of this class have a total of nine countries.Fifty aircrafts can solve the most complex and a variety of combat missions from ASW to assault against the application.For this purpose, there is on board helicopters and airplanes, and not some special deck, with truncated flight characteristics, and the MiG-29 and Su-27, however, with a special marine equipment.
In the Crimean town of Salem was built base for training pilots, who were to raise their cars from the deck of the cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov".The aircraft carrier has become a source of manpower naval aviation.Today, Russian pilots such flights have become routine, the same experience is not enough, everything was new.
Warships built for a reason, they represent certain military doctrine.In today's Russian navy is protecting the country's interests in all areas of the world ocean.To maintain a high degree of protection of marine compounds consisting of ships of different purpose and class requires sustained air support.It is this problem is solved, "Admiral Kuznetsov".The carrier systems has antiship, antisubmarine and antiaircraft weapons, and its air wing can cover the actions of the whole squadron.
As for assumptions about the aggressiveness of Russian foreign policy, they are unfounded.If we evaluate the "imperial ambitions" in the number of ships of this class, it is enough to compare the number of nuclear-powered attack US aircraft carriers (11) with the number "one", and everything will become clear.Threats to the world the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" is not, but my country, if necessary, protect.
