Models from the exhibition of the Nevsky Design Bureau Museum. Most of these projects were not included in the fleet for a number of reasons. Really, it's a pity...
Here, for example, is the well-known project 1123 “Condor”. Anti-submarine cruiser "Moscow".
...But “Moscow” could become like this...
...Such...
...And even like this!
Project 1143.4. Heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Baku". That's how he was.
This is what it will become after being converted into an Indian aircraft carrier.
Project 1143.5. Heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers of the "Riga" type. This was the future “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov” at birth.
And this is what “Varyag” would look like...
Project 1143.7. The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of our fleet is Ulyanovsk.
Springboard + catapults + AWACS aircraft. Power!.. Which was never completed...
“Nuclear large cruiser with aircraft weapons” of Project 1153. It was supposed to build a couple of such colossuses, but not a single one was built...
The MiG-23A and Su-25 were to be based on the ship.
Project 1174 large landing ship "Ivan Rogov",...
...And, alas, its successor was never built - the Project 11780 universal landing ship.
I think it would be superfluous to explain why this project received the nickname “Ivan Tarawa”... ;)
