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Project 1153 Orel (Russian: Орёл pr: "Or'yol", Eagle) was a late-1970s plan to give the Soviet Navy a true blue water aviation capability. The aircraft carrier would have about 72,000 tons displacement, with a nuclear power plant and about 70 aircraft launched via steam catapults, similar to the earlier Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the U.S. Navy. Unlike them and the preceding Soviet aircraft cruisers, it was also designed with a large offensive capability; the ship mounts including 24 vertical launch tubes for anti-ship cruise missiles.[1] In the USSR it was classified as the "large cruiser with aircraft armament".[2] The project 1153 (itself based on an early-1970s Project 1160, confusingly also named Orel, even 10,000 tonnes heavier) was cancelled in October 1978 as being too expensive, and a smaller Project 1143.5, more V/STOL-aircraft-oriented, was developed instead: in its initial stage, a version of 65,000 tons and 52 aircraft was proposed, but the actual Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers are even smaller, about 55,000 tons.[2] While the Project Orel never saw fruition, in the 1980s it influenced the also abortive Ulyanovsk program.

The project was codenamed Eagle (Орёл), just like the two earlier helicopter and aircraft cruiser projects, and several projects of other classes of ships, were named after birds of prey. However the carriers themselves were named after Soviet cities, while only frigates were named after birds (see Russian ship naming conventions); the actual projected name of the ships is not known.

See also

• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number

References

External links

• "Project 1143.7 Orel Ul'yanovsk class," GlobalSecurity.org.
• "A Brief Look at Russian Aircraft Carrier Development," Robin J. Lee.

На других языках

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- [en] Project 1153 Orel

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[es] Proyecto 1153

El Proyecto 1153 OREL (cirílico: Орёл) fue un programa de la era de los 1970s soviético para dar a la Marina soviética una verdadera capacidad de aviación de armada de aguas azules .

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[it] Progetto 1153 Orel

Il progetto 1153 Orel (parola russa che significa aquila) riguardava un programma navale sovietico degli anni settanta, che prevedeva la costruzione di una classe di superportaerei a propulsione nucleare, ispirate a quelle americane. Tuttavia, per problemi sia tecnici, sia di costi, il programma non venne mai portato a termine.

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[ru] Проект 1153 «Орёл»

Проект 1153 шифр «Орёл» — советская программа по разработке «большого крейсера с авиационным вооружением» водоизмещением около 70 тысяч тонн с ядерной силовой установкой, начатая в 1976 году в Невском ПКБ на базе нереализованного проекта 1160. Главным конструктором был В. Ф. Аникиев[2].

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