Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk in 1986 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Russia | |
| Name | Novorossiysk |
| Namesake | City of Novorossiysk |
| Builder | Chernomorskiy yard, Nikolayev |
| Laid down | 30 September 1975 |
| Launched | 26 December 1978 |
| Commissioned | 14 September 1982 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1993 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1997 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Kiev-class aircraft cruiser |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 273.1 m (896 ft) overall |
| Beam | |
| Draught | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Propulsion | 4 shaft geared steam turbines, 140,000 shp |
| Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Endurance | 13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Armament | 4 × twin SS-N-12 Sandbox SSM launchers (8 missiles),
2 × twin SA-N-3 Goblet SAM launchers (72 missiles), 2 × twin 76.2 mm AA guns, 8 × AK-630 30 mm CIWS, 1 × twin SUW-N-1 FRAS Anti-Submarine Rocket launcher |
| Aircraft carried | |
Novorossiysk (Russian: Новороссийск) was a conventionally powered aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1982 to 1993. She was the third Kiev-class vessel to be built. She was designed to engage in offensive actions as a guided missile cruiser mostly using her deck mounted missiles as well as support anti-submarine and surface actions with her embarked air group.