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Kiev-class aircraft carrier

Soviet aircraft carrying cruisers. In reality, they were aircraft carrriers.

The Kiev-class (known in the Soviet Union as Project 1143 Krechyet (gyrfalcon)) were a class of four aircraft carriers operated by the Soviet Navy. To allow them to pass through the Turkish straits, they were designated as 'aircraft-carrying cruisers'. As a result, their size limited them to carrying the Yak-38 Forger VTOL aircraft

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