Kiev (flight deck cruiser)

Kiev

The Kiev in Tianjin, China

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Russia   Ship type Flight deck cruiser class Project 1143 Shipyard Shipyard 444, Mykolaiv Launch December 26, 1972 Commissioning December 28, 1975 Whereabouts Exhibit in Tianjin

Ship dimensions and crew length 273.1 m ( Lüa ) 235.9 m ( KWL ) width Hull: 31 m Flight deck: 51.3 m Draft Max. 11.5 m displacement empty: 30,530 t Use: 42,100 t   crew 1,433 men

Machine system machine 8 × KWN 98/64 steam boilers 4 × steam turbines TW-12-3 Machine performance 4 × 35,500 PS (26,110 kW) Top speed 30.7 kn (57 km / h) propeller 4th

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

Furnishing Aircraft 16 × Jak-38 18 × Ka-25 or Ka-27

The Kiev was a Soviet flight deck cruiser . She was built in Mykolaiv and added to the Soviet Northern Fleet on December 28, 1975 . The Kiev was the lead ship of Project 1143 , of which three other ships were built: Minsk , Admiral Gorshkov and Novorossiysk .

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They were all officially designated as anti-submarine cruisers, but were in fact aircraft carriers in their anti-submarine role. The reason for this was the Treaty of Montreux , which enabled Turkey to prohibit aircraft carriers from passing through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles . This agreement could be circumvented or undermined by declaring the ships as cruisers.

They differed from their western counterparts mainly in that the front deck area was not used to take off the aircraft, but accommodated the main part of the on-board armament. Sufficient deck area (189 m × 20 m) for the aircraft group consisting exclusively of helicopters and vertical take-offs was achieved via an angled deck. The longitudinal axis of this deck is inclined to the ship's longitudinal axis by 4.5 ° to port. There are no catapults or interception devices. The aircraft, helicopters and missiles are prepared in the hall deck and transported to the flight deck with lifts of different sizes (max. 20 m × 10.4 m) and carrying capacities. The experience that was made with the use of aircraft on the Kiev was one reason to commission the first classic Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov .

After 20 years of service, the Kiev was decommissioned in 1996 and sold to a Chinese company a year later. Since May 1, 2004, it has been exhibited as an exhibit at an amusement park in Tianjin , China .

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  Kiev 1986
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  Kiev 1987
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  Kiev 1988

See also

• List of historical aircraft carriers

literature

• Chris Bishop: Battleships and Weapon Systems in Sea Warfare. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-85492-433-X
• Arkadi Morin, Nikolai Valujew: Soviet aircraft carriers. Secret 1910-1995. Berlin 1996

Documentary film

• On all seas. Documentary by Johannes Holzhausen, A2001

Web links

Commons : Kiev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• archive
• History of the ship (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FTD: "Kiev" aircraft carrier: luxury hotel for military freaks. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 12, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Coordinates: 39 ° 9 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 117 ° 48 ′ 30.5 ″  E