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Ported to OBJ from the game-ripped model provided to us by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original source unknown. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

1n 1982 the Soviet Navy reached a major milestone when its first true aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, entered service. This was the culmination of two decades of development and experimentation by the Soviets in coming up with a successful aircraft carrier design without using Western-style carrier technologies, the key ones of which they were denied due to the Cold War. A logical extension of the preceding Kiev class, Kuznetsov was very similar save that it had a full flight deck for bonafide carrier operations. It also had a large ski ramp mounted on the bow section of its flight deck (an idea borrowed from the British), so that its aircraft could take off without the need of catapults. This was done by using the full flight deck and using the aircraft's afterburners to increase speed as much as possible during take off. This also drank a lot of fuel and cut the aircraft's operating range dramatically, as well as precluding the use of large or very heavy aircraft for carrier operations; however, as noted before, it worked. (grin) One ship was already operational (Kuznetsov) and another nearing completion (Varyag) when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and the fate of both ships was in doubt for some years afterward. Eventually the Russian Federation (successors to the Soviet Union) elected to keep Kuznetsov operational and sold the almost-finished Varyag to the Chinese. Kuznetsov remains operational as I write this (fall 2020) despite technical and financial issues on the Russians' end, while the Chinese finished Varyag and rechristened it Liaoning before it entered service with the Chinese Navy in 2012 - making it their first operational true aircraft carrier as well - and they've since built a third to a somewhat modified design, Shandong, which was commissioned into service at the end of 2019. To find out more about the Admiral Kuznetsov class, follow the link below:

www.globalsecurity.org/militar…

This was the third Kuznetsov model on which I ever got my hands, and thank you Pack 3D for making it available. The real ship was brand new back when I was in the U.S. Navy, so we got to hear a lot about it from our superiors at the time. Hence my long-standing fascination with Kuznetsov. Anyway, this model is excellent for its poly count and should work well for all of your 3D project needs. It's going to be up here twice, because I'l be retexturing it for the Chinese Liaoning when it comes time to deal with the ships of the Chinese People's Navy (PLAN).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - The class is named after Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, who was the chief fleet admiral and commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II.

Description
Ported to OBJ from the game-ripped model provided to us by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original source unknown. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

1n 1982 the Soviet Navy reached a major milestone when its first true aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, entered service. This was the culmination of two decades of development and experimentation by the Soviets in coming up with a successful aircraft carrier design without using Western-style carrier technologies, the key ones of which they were denied due to the Cold War. A logical extension of the preceding Kiev class, Kuznetsov was very similar save that it had a full flight deck for bonafide carrier operations. It also had a large ski ramp mounted on the bow section of its flight deck (an idea borrowed from the British), so that its aircraft could take off without the need of catapults. This was done by using the full flight deck and using the aircraft's afterburners to increase speed as much as possible during take off. This also drank a lot of fuel and cut the aircraft's operating range dramatically, as well as precluding the use of large or very heavy aircraft for carrier operations; however, as noted before, it worked. (grin) One ship was already operational (Kuznetsov) and another nearing completion (Varyag) when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and the fate of both ships was in doubt for some years afterward. Eventually the Russian Federation (successors to the Soviet Union) elected to keep Kuznetsov operational and sold the almost-finished Varyag to the Chinese. Kuznetsov remains operational as I write this (fall 2020) despite technical and financial issues on the Russians' end, while the Chinese finished Varyag and rechristened it Liaoning before it entered service with the Chinese Navy in 2012 - making it their first operational true aircraft carrier as well - and they've since built a third to a somewhat modified design, Shandong, which was commissioned into service at the end of 2019. To find out more about the Admiral Kuznetsov class, follow the link below:

www.globalsecurity.org/militar…

This was the third Kuznetsov model on which I ever got my hands, and thank you Pack 3D for making it available. The real ship was brand new back when I was in the U.S. Navy, so we got to hear a lot about it from our superiors at the time. Hence my long-standing fascination with Kuznetsov. Anyway, this model is excellent for its poly count and should work well for all of your 3D project needs. It's going to be up here twice, because I'l be retexturing it for the Chinese Liaoning when it comes time to deal with the ships of the Chinese People's Navy (PLAN).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - The class is named after Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, who was the chief fleet admiral and commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II.