But to defeat enemy fighters "Phoenix" were not good enough. "Tomkat" was finalized for the use of long-range missiles "Phoenix", but the latter, by and large, were weapons interceptor, and were intended primarily for the destruction of the Soviet missile-carriers Tu-16 and Tu-22, as well as missiles launched from them. The fighter turned out to be very heavy, and with insufficient thrust-weight, therefore, as an air fighter, he lost the same E-FNGX F-12, despite some of the possibilities that the variable geometry of the wing provided him.
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I must say that Tomkat was originally created as an aircraft capable of ensuring full air supremacy in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft carrier, but. The air defense of American aircraft carriers was built around an X-NUMX squadron of Tomcat F-2 / D, each consisting of 14-10 airplanes.
The first digit is the number of squadrons, the second is the number of aircraft in them What was she supposed to be? The sources give very different data on this subject, some of which are shown in the table below: Accordingly, the Soviet ATACR was created not as multipurpose aircraft carriers, but rather as air defense ships, and this, of course, left a definite imprint on the planned composition of the Ulyanovsk air group. In contrast to this point of view, it was believed in the USSR that the main tasks of the fleet would be accomplished by multipurpose and missile submarines, as well as rocket and artillery surface ships, and that carrier-based aircraft should serve to ensure their combat stability. In America, it was believed that this aircraft is the main force that can solve most of the problems of surface fleetand therefore they built their surface fleet there as a means of supporting the activities of carrier-based aviation. The Ministry of defence expects that the contract for its construction will be ready by 2025, and the construction will be over by 2030.Ī Few days ago, Vladimir Putin has demonstrated the concept of the aircraft carrier project, "Manatee".In the previous article, we already spoke about the fundamental difference in views on the role of the deck aviation in the USA and the USSR. The experience of its practical application, especially in Syria, will also be considered in the development of performance specifications of a new Russian nuclear aircraft carrier. It's non-nuclear aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov". The project carrier was supposed to carry up to 70 aircraft and helicopters.Īt the moment, the Russian Navy has the only aircraft-carrying ship. But the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the construction in 1991, froze, and by next year the incomplete war ship dismantled and sold for scrap. It was supposed to be completed in 1992-19 to transfer to the Navy. This heavy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was laid at the plant in Mykolaiv in 1988. "Ulyanovsk" was developed on the Nevsky PKB. We are talking about the ship that began to build with the 80-ies of the last century at the black sea shipbuilding plant in Nikolaev. This news Agency TASS two sources are of relevance to the shipbuilding industry. To work will raise the technical documentation on the unfinished Soviet aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk". The Navy of the Russian Federation plans before the end of 2020 to complete the work on the tactical-technical task (TTZ) for the construction of the first Russian heavy aircraft carrier with a nuclear power plant and transfer it to the United shipbuilding company to begin the design of the ship.