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''Novorossiysk'' was a conventionally powered
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aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
(heavy aircraft cruiser
The aircraft cruiser (also known as aviation cruiser or cruiser-carrier) is a warship that combines the features of the aircraft carrier and a surface warship such as a cruiser or battleship.
Early types
The first aircraft cruiser was originally ...
in Russian classification) that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1982 to 1993. She was the third 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.
History
''Novorossiysk'' was laid down at the former Soviet Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on 30 September 1975, launched on 24 December 1978, commissioned on 12 September 1982, and decommissioned in June 1993. The third ship in her class, she served in the Soviet Pacific Fleet. In March 1985, ''Novorossiysk'' and escorting battle group departed the Sea of Japan, sailed to the south of Okinawa and then east across the Pacific. After approximately eight days, the ships turned and headed northwest toward the Kuril Islands, simulating an enemy carrier strike against the Soviet Union. As the ''Novorossiysk'' approached the islands, about east of Japan, SovietBear
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bombers flew reconnaissance missions near the battle group and helped vector some 20 Backfire bombers to their targets, practising the Soviet strategy of bomber launched anti-ship missile warfare. A U.S. Navy description of the ''Novorossisysk'' exercise notes that "The force was hit by simulated air strikes and probably by submarines firing torpedoes and cruise missiles from 1,120km east of Japan, on 14 April. They came at it with submarines and aircraft--everything they had." The ''Novorossiysk'' made its last voyage in mid-1991 just before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
In 1995 the ''Novorossiysk'' hulk, which had suffered a serious engine room fire two years back, was sold for scrapping, and was broken up in 1997 at Pohang, South Korea.
See also
* Soviet battleship ''Novorossiysk'' (1949–1955), former Italian battleship ''Giulio Cesare'' * List of aircraft carriers of Russia and the Soviet UnionReferences
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