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Ported to OBJ from the original SketchUp model by Lazarus Starkweather. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This was a class of three landing ships built for the Soviet Navy starting in the 1970s as part of its attempt to seriously expand its amphibious warfare capability. They were the largest ships of their type ever built for the Soviet Navy, they had both bow and stern doors like most Soviet LST-type vessels, and they could act either in the role of LST or LPD. Although expensive to build and maintain they were the first to offer the Soviet Union true blue water (oceangoing) amphibious warfare capability, being able to place Soviet landing forces in such far away places as the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. They were also considered at the time to be superior to their U.S. Navy counterparts, the Austin class LPDs, in almost every way. The fall of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 effectively nixed the Ivan Rogov program, as the successor Russian Federation no longer had the funds either to keep them in constant operation or to even contemplate building a fourth Ivan Rogov, and all three were out of service by the mid-2000s. They were scheduled to be replaced by two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships but the deal fell through, and their condition eventually deteriorated to the point where reactivating them was highly unlikely given the cost required to refurbish them. Two of them were sold for scrapping in 2014 with the one in best condition retained (Mitrofan Moskalenko); however, it was badly damaged in a shipyard fire in the spring of 2019 and the decision was made shortly thereafter to scrap it. They have since been replaced in service by the Project 23900 series LHDs. To find out more about the Ivan Rogov class, follow the link below:

www.navalanalyses.com/2018/08/…

This is a straightforward port of the original SketchUp model, with only one surface with an obviously flipped normal corrected by me. I don't promise that was all of them, given flipped normals are a common issue with ported SketchUp models, so any others you will have to re-flip yourself.

This model is being released under right of attribution to the original creator of a work that was originally released for free. Please be sure to credit Lazarus Starkweather if you use this in any of your own efforts. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. Any other uses have to be cleared with Mr. Starkweather first.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the original SketchUp model by Lazarus Starkweather. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This was a class of three landing ships built for the Soviet Navy starting in the 1970s as part of its attempt to seriously expand its amphibious warfare capability. They were the largest ships of their type ever built for the Soviet Navy, they had both bow and stern doors like most Soviet LST-type vessels, and they could act either in the role of LST or LPD. Although expensive to build and maintain they were the first to offer the Soviet Union true blue water (oceangoing) amphibious warfare capability, being able to place Soviet landing forces in such far away places as the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. They were also considered at the time to be superior to their U.S. Navy counterparts, the Austin class LPDs, in almost every way. The fall of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 effectively nixed the Ivan Rogov program, as the successor Russian Federation no longer had the funds either to keep them in constant operation or to even contemplate building a fourth Ivan Rogov, and all three were out of service by the mid-2000s. They were scheduled to be replaced by two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships but the deal fell through, and their condition eventually deteriorated to the point where reactivating them was highly unlikely given the cost required to refurbish them. Two of them were sold for scrapping in 2014 with the one in best condition retained (Mitrofan Moskalenko); however, it was badly damaged in a shipyard fire in the spring of 2019 and the decision was made shortly thereafter to scrap it. They have since been replaced in service by the Project 23900 series LHDs. To find out more about the Ivan Rogov class, follow the link below:

www.navalanalyses.com/2018/08/…

This is a straightforward port of the original SketchUp model, with only one surface with an obviously flipped normal corrected by me. I don't promise that was all of them, given flipped normals are a common issue with ported SketchUp models, so any others you will have to re-flip yourself.

This model is being released under right of attribution to the original creator of a work that was originally released for free. Please be sure to credit Lazarus Starkweather if you use this in any of your own efforts. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. Any other uses have to be cleared with Mr. Starkweather first.