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China’s Flying Sharks

... landing (V/STOVL) aircraft. The Soviet engineers proceeded from the premise that U.S. aircraft carriers had qualitatively greater potential in terms of aviation. The only... ... were the MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-27s. Ground-based fighters are rarely allocated to the navy (there are many more examples of the reverse process taking place). The flight... ... aircraft-capable ships, are now known as the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and China’s only aircraft carrier to date, the Liaoning . The USSR upgraded its Sukhoi...

27.04.2017

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The Pearl in the Great China Fleet

... scraps); another was bought by the Indian Navy (to be upgraded and introduced into the fleet under the name Vikramaditya ); a third ship (the Ulyanovsk ) was dismantled for scrap at a shipyard in Ukraine; and a fourth one remained a part of the Russian Navy (the Admiral Kuznetsov ). Officially, China purchased the aircraft carriers so they could turn them into themed attractions and/or hotels, and the first two ( Kiev and Minsk ) are indeed being used for this purpose (although they were studied by the military and shipbuilders beforehand). Officially, China purchased ...

06.02.2017

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