Yep… that’s the P 1143.7 Ul’yanovsk all right… the CVN the Soviets were going to build as a follow-on to Kuznetsov.
Ul’yanovsk- laid down: 25th November 1988; launched: N/A; fate: scrapped starting on 4 Feb 1992
Builders: Nikolaiev South, Nikolaiev,Russia
Dimensions: 1089′ x 130′ x 35′ / 331.90m x 39.62m x 10.60m
Displacement: 80,000 tons max
Complement: N/A
Armament:
2 x RBU6000 AS mortars
8 x 30mm AK-630 CIWS
12 x VLS launchers for SS-N-19 Shipwreck / Granit SSM (12 rounds in total)
24 x VLS launchers for SA-N-11 Gauntlet / Kinzhal SAM (192 rounds in total)
Aircraft Facilities: The flight deck measures 1,065′ x 248′. Normally 70 would have been carried, made up of Su-27K, Su-25K and Ka-27 helicopters. Four catapults would have been fitted.
Armour: None known.
Powerplant: Four PWR reactors would have been carried, driving 4 steam turbines providing a total of 240,000 shp on 4 shafts.
Maximum speed was 30+kts.
Electronics Fit:
Radar: Sky Watch 3D air search; Palm Frond navigation
Sonar: MG-342 Orion / Horse Jaw hull mounted; MG-335 Platina / Horse Tail towed array
Other: Trap Door fire control; Tsunami communications; Salgir navigation
Miscellaneous: A towed torpedo decoy system was to be fitted.
Ul’yanovsk is just a big Kuznetsov ! The defensive and offensive ship armament is the same. Shown on the diagram are eight Kashtan mounts, each capable of carrying 8 SA-N-11 Missiles each and there are cells of SA-N-9 next to every kashtan mount. The same as on Kuznetsov.
If Sevmash could produce such a carrier is interesting, given the problems they have had with Admiral Gorshkov. Gorshkov is just a rebuild and not from scratch, so yes they will have learnt from it, but given the spiralling costs of her, will the russians pay for three big carriers.
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