Project 11780 Kherson was a 1980s-era
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
LHD program derived from the design comparable to the US . The ship would have been about 25,000 tons displacement, with steam turbine power plants and carried about 12 helicopters, four
Ondatra-class landing craft and two
Tsaplya-class LCACs.
It was cancelled with
the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
See also
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Tarawa class amphibious assault ship
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List of ships of the Soviet Navy
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List of ships of Russia by project number
The list of ships of Russia by project number includes all Russian ships by assigned project numbers. Ship descriptions are Russian assigned classifications when known. (The Russian term "проект" can be translated either as the cognate "pr ...
References
External links
*http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/ship-soviet-2.htm
*https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/12/russia-to-begin-construction-of-lhd-in-2020-part-1/
Helicopter carrier classes
Amphibious warfare vessel classes
Cold War aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union
Amphibious warfare vessels of the Soviet Union
Proposed aircraft carriers
Abandoned military projects of the Soviet Union
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