As for the fourth of the Soviet aircraft cruisers, the Admiral Gorshkov, built as the subclass Baku in the 1980s, was sold to India in 2004 and is now in service as the INS Vikramaditya.

During WWII, the Soviet Union experimented with a radical concept—massive bombers carrying fighter planes deep into enemy territory. These "flying aircraft carriers" could launch swarms of ...

When the carrier designated today as Admiral Kuznetsov was first commissioned in the Soviet Navy during the Cold War, it was intended to lead a two-ship class of aircraft carriers for the USSR.

Type 001A is China's new class of carrier. The country first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a secondhand Soviet ship built more than 25 years ago and commissioned in 2012 after extensive refits.

As is known, the construction of these six aircraft carriers never began. The Soviet-era aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov spent most of its life in repairs and is still in service. Johnson believes ...