If you can't defeat your opponent by force, use stealth!
The fate of post-Soviet aircraft-carrying cruisers is hard!
Somehow it turned out that no one was punished for defense damage or treason.
1.- “Kiev” - the first of 7 cruisers. It joined the Soviet Navy in 1975. In 1993 it was decommissioned, and in 2000 it was sold to China, where it first became an exhibit and then a hotel in the theme park “Binhai”.
It is surprising that the allegedly oppressive Ukrainians Communists named their first cruiser in honor of the Ukrainian capital)). LOL
2.- “Minsk” - entered into service with the Navy in 1978. Decommissioned in 1993, in 1994 it was sold to South Korea for scrap metal, then bought by China and turned into a theme park “Minsk World”. The park didn't work out well, and now the aircraft carrier is slowly being sawed by hard-working Chinese on the Yangtze River.
In April this year, diggers climbed onto the heavy aircraft carrier "Minsk"
All would be well, but from the video it is clear that the cruiser was sold with all the ammunition and almost all the technical systems, including fire control and communications. Well, it wasn't a pity then.
List of weapons recovered:
- P-15 (P-15M) “Termite” - anti-ship missile developed in the mid-50s of the XX century in MKB “Raduga” under the leadership of chief designer A. Y. Bereznyak.
- MiG-23 - Soviet multirole fighter of the third generation with a variable sweep upper wing designed by OKB-155.
- 53-65K torpedoes - in 1969, the 53-65K single-mode homing torpedo was adopted for use against surface ships. It was created at Plant No. 171 of MSP, chief designer - D. S. Ginzburg.
- M-11 “Storm” - Soviet ship-based surface-to-air missile system with a full hold of B-611 (4K60) medium-range guided anti-aircraft missiles.
- RBU-6000 - Soviet naval rocket bomber with a stationary, dual-plane guided launcher with twelve radially arranged barrels. Designed to destroy submarines and attacking enemy torpedoes.
- Several P-500 “Bazalt” - the first sea-based cruise missiles with supersonic flight speed. They were intended to combat powerful ship groups, including aircraft carrier groups.
3.- “Novorossiysk” - in service since 1982. After decommissioning in 1993, it was sold to South Korea and dismantled in 1997.
4.- “Admiral Gorshkov” - in 1987 the aircraft carrier cruiser was launched. In 2000 it was sold to India, in 2013 it was reconstructed and renamed “Vikramaditya”. It is still serving in the Indian Navy to this day.
5.- “Varyag” - was not in the Black Sea Fleet. Construction was stopped in 1992. In 1998 it was sold by Ukraine to China, where it was completed by 2012, renamed “Liaoning”. As part of the Chinese Navy.
Now
6.- “Ulyanovsk” - nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was planned to be commissioned in 1995. However, construction was suspended in 1991, and in 1992 it was dismantled in Nikolaev (Ukraine).
At the moment, some of us are making up for what we once foolishly lost, but at a completely different price, and some of us are still hoping with outstretched hands that they will be given everything as it was under the Soviet Union....