Soviet Project 1147-44 CVL

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One of the light fleet carrier studies leading to the Kiev class aircraft carrier, the P1147-44 featured 2 catapults, four arresting wire and deck lifts (due to inability of soviet industry to deliver deck-edge lifts). Obviously, the design bureaux did not receive the memo Re: every square inch must be festooned with weapons, electronics and missile systems. As a result, the P1147-44 was a surprisingly un-cluttered single-point design. Airgroup is notional- various CATOBAR Mig-23 (ARRRRGGGG!) and SU-17's were mooted, but not proceeded with, probably to the palpable relief of Soviet naval aviators who were issued Yak-38's...in retrospect, that was not a step ahead. WH models kitbash , re-frobbed for massive poly reduction, texture mapped, frame-rate friendly and game ready.