Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
Class overview
Name	Ulyanovsk class
Builders	Chernomorsky Shipyard 444
Operators	Soviet Navy
Preceded by	Kuznetsov class
Succeeded by	Project 23000
Planned	2
Cancelled	2
History
Soviet Union
Name	Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск)
Ordered	11 June 1986
Laid down	25 November 1988
Commissioned	1995 (planned)
Stricken	1 November 1991
Fate	Scrapped at 40% completion 5 February 1992
General characteristics
Type	Aircraft carrier
Displacement	65,800 tons standard 75,000 tons full load[1]
Length	321.2 m (1,054 ft) overall[1]
Beam	83.9 m (275 ft) overall[1] 40 m (130 ft) at waterline[1]
Draught	10.6 m (35 ft)[1]
Propulsion	4 × KN-3 nuclear reactors 4 × steam turbines, four shafts, 280,000 shp (210,000 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range	Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
Endurance	Limited only by supplies
Complement	3,400 total[1]
Armament	12 × P-700 Granit SSMs, Buk SAMs, 8 × CADS-N-1 CIWS, 8 × AK-630 rotary anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried	68 aircraft total 44 Sukhoi Su-33 and/or Mikoyan MiG-29K 6 × Yak-44 radar picket aircraft 16 Kamov Ka-27 ASW helicopters 2 Kamov Ka-27PS SAR helicopters[1]

Ulyanovsk (Russian: Улья́новск, IPA: [ʊˈlʲjanəfsk]), Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a fixed-wing aircraft carrier laid down on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of Soviet nuclear-powered supercarriers. It was intended for the first time to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Navy. The ship would have been equipped with steam catapults that could launch fully loaded aircraft, representing a major advance over the Kuznetsov class, which could only launch less-loaded aircraft from their ski-jumps. However, construction of Ulyanovsk was stopped at about 40% after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.^[2]