Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped

Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped

Laid down at Mykolaiv in 1988 beside the future Liaoning, the 1,054-foot aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk had a 70%-complete hull by 1992 when Russia told the yard it was no longer interested. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv could afford to finish her.