Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:48 am
The Vaktovian Empire wrote:Monsone wrote:
The critical issue is getting the carrier from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean through the Bosphorus Strait since the Admiral Kuznetsov was only able to get through because it technically isn't an aircraft carrier and instead a heavy aircraft carrier cruiser. The Ulyanovksy would have had many more issues getting through the straits.
And making the ship conventional powered is possible, though it would be very expensive to do so since the Ulyanovsk was meant to be a blue-water aircraft carrier with a long cruise endurance and a nuclear reactor.
This, in addition to you are I assume referring to the [url=Ulyanovsk]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Ulyanovsk[/url] that was laid down in Ukraine? I agree on it would be quite difficult to have gotten it thru the straits.
Well it was meant to go through the straights anyways right?
Being laid down in ukraine and a blue water vessel