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Kuzntesov Class Aircraft Carrier
- Aircraft Carrier -



Origin (Real World):
Soviet Union

Games Featured In:
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere *
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Operators:
UPEO Navy *
Russian Navy
Yuktobanian Navy

Notable Vessels:
Carrier Admiral Tsanev of the Yuktobanian Navy (AC5)

Weapons:
12 × SS-N-19 'Shipwreck' VLS-launched SSMs
24 × 8-cell SA-N-9 'Gauntlet' VLS-launched SAMs
8 × CADS-1 CIWS mounts, each with dual 30 mm gatling guns and SA-N-11 SAMs
8 × AK-630 30 mm antiaircraft guns
2 × RBU-12000 UDAV-1 ASW rocket launchers

Overview:
While designated an aircraft carrier, Kuznetsov's design implies a mission different from that of either the United States Navy’s carriers or those of the French Navy. The Russian ship is termed by her builders to be a tyazholiy avianesushchiy kreyser (TAKR or TAVKR) - a “heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser” - intended to support and defend strategic missile-carrying submarines, surface ships, and maritime missile-carrying aircraft of the Russian fleet. This designation allows the Soviet/Russian navy to circumvent the refusal by Turkey to let aircraft carriers pass the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

The twelve Su-33s of the Kuznetsov are essentially constrained to air superiority operations, although five Su-25 attackers are also carried. The lack of catapults on Kuznetsov precludes launching strike aircraft with heavy loads, which makes it essentially impossible for aircraft with large payloads to attack land or naval targets, although Su-33s with maximum payload are able to take off from the landing deck. The carrier's air wing also includes over two dozen Ka-27 'Helix' helicopters for anti-submarine operations and also anti-ship missiles.

Sources:
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (In-game Data)

Wikipedia

*Original Article by Heinkel*

* = Appears only in a cutscene

[Zaku]

Beginning to clean this up; I'll work more on the bio later.

[Ribbon-Azure]

Helpin' out Cobalt and JDX -- BIO changed to OVERVIEW

[viperzerof-2]

dose this apper in game in ac3 or just a cutscesen?

[Mr. P]

Admiral Tsanev:

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

That's a great screenshot Mr.P!

[Tazuren]

The Title is misspelled. Should be Kuznetsnov.

[Ribbon-Azure]

Edited the title.

Will sort this mess out later.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

I fixed the article for Ribbon-Azure.

[Shirai_Kuroko]

LOL. It's odd that in normal difficulty, Admiral Tsanev can only take an LASM, and it instantly goes under as good as it gets hit, yet the Osean Carriers in Mission 5 can take 7 LASM before going under. Odd isn't it?

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

7 LASM's? Holy moly lol.

[Protostealth]

Must be for the sake of gameplay.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Now that's unfair lol, it would have been much nicer if it used the Phalanx at your missiles.

[Shirai_Kuroko]

Russians don't use Phalanx, remember. It's the US that use it. Russians use CADS-1 CIWS as defense system as stated above.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

I thought they use the AK-630?

[Gracidia]

SatoKasu (ACS), on 28 April 2011 - 02:49 AM, said:

Russians don't use Phalanx, remember. It's the US that use it. Russians use CADS-1 CIWS as defense system as stated above.

CIWS=Phalanx CIWS

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

CIWS= Close In Weapons System, AK-230, Phalanx, AK-630, Goalkeeper CIWS.

[Shirai_Kuroko]

RoddH, on 28 April 2011 - 04:56 AM, said:

CIWS= Close In Weapons System, AK-230, Phalanx, AK-630, Goalkeeper CIWS.

Yup. You got it right. I wonder why didn't Namco take time to model Su-33 so that Admiral Tsanev have its effective defense measure, though.