So first things first, yeah I know I’ve not posted since July last year but I’ve had a lot going on but I’ll try to make more posts but I can’t promise anything
So I was looking around the secret projects forum and weapons and warfare and found some proposed soviet aircraft carriers
Project Kostromitinova
1st is Project Kostromitinova carrier which was to have 66 fighter aircraft and 40 Bombers/Torpedo Bombers with two catapults.
Her gun armament was to be sixteen 152mm guns with twenty-four 100mm FlaK guns, twenty-four 37mm guns and forty-four 23mm guns.
Her armour on the deck was to be 180mm thick, Her side armour was to be 100mm thick and the hangar had 40mm of armour with her top speed 32 knots with a range of 8000 miles when travelling at 18 knots.
Our 2nd ship is the Project 71 Carrier
Project 71
Project 71 had a speed of 34-35 knots and had an armament for eight 100mm Anti-Air Guns, sixteen 37mm Anti-Air Guns and twenty 12.7mm Anti-Air Heavy Machine Guns.
The armour belt was presumed to 100mm thick armour on the outer hull and 75mm thick armour on the inner hull while the flight deck had 90mm thick armour while the bridge had 50mm thick armour.
Her Air Wing was intended to have twenty fighter aircraft and ten reconnaissance-bomber aircraft.
Our 3rd proposed Soviet carrier is the Project 72 Carrier
Project 72
The Project 72 Carrier’s gun armament was suppose to be twelve or sixteen 130mm Anti-Air Guns, sixteen 85mm Anti-Air Guns with twenty-four 37mm Anti-Air Guns and forty-eight 23mm Anti-Air Guns.
The armour belt was to have 90mm of armour and the flight was to have I think 60mm of deck armour
Side Note: the Deck armour was this 30mm+(50-80)mm.
Her air wing was to be 62 aircraft.
Our final carrier is the Project 85 Light Aircraft Carrier
Project 85 Light Aircraft Carrier
Project 85 Light Aircraft Carrier was a proposed Soviet Light Aircraft Carrier had a propulsion system consisting of steam turbines that produced 144,000 horsepower giving a top speed of 31.4 knots and cruising at 18 knots gave a range of 5000 nautical miles or 5753 miles.
Her Crew was to be 1850
Her armament was to intended to be, sixteen 100mm Anti-Air Guns, twenty-four 57mm Anti-Air Guns and thirty-two 25mm Anti-Air Guns.
Her aircraft was planned to be forty navalised MiG-19 Farmer variant known as Tigr and two Mil Mi-1 Hare helicopters.
What do you think of these proposed soviet carriers and what could they have been called had they gone into service and would they have been replaced by the Kiev and Admiral Kuznetzov class Aircraft Carriers
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