The Super Aircraft Carrier Russia Could Never Have

Scrapped in the '90s...

A concept of the Ulyanovsk, the supercarrier Russia wanted to build.

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 winged aircraft, Paul Richard Huard reports on nationalinterest.org.

With a nuclear-powered engine -- and working in conjunction with other Soviet surface warfare vessels and submarines -- the supercarrier would have steamed through the oceans with a purpose, Huard wrote.

Namely, to keep the U.S. Navy away from the Motherland.

But the Ulyanovsk is an "almost" of history.  Moscow never finished the project because it ran out of money, Huard added.

For more of a fascinating report: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-navys-greatest-fear-russia-wanted-build-super-aircraft-26025

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