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The Soviet supercarrier
Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement.
Here s What You Need to Remember: 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.