Russia’s Enormous Ulyanovsk Aircraft Carrier Had Only One Mission
To keep America away from the Motherland.
Here's What You Need to Know: Great nations have carriers, Russia considers itself a great nation, and therefore the ship would be a symbol of national revival and destiny. In other words, a new carrier would be one more reason to forget the bad old days when the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Had she ever sailed, the Soviet supercarrier
Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement and enough storage to carry an air group of up to 70 fixed and rotary wing aircraft.