Project 1153 OREL

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Project 1153 Orel (Russian: Орёл, Eagle) was a planned 1970s-era Soviet program to give the Soviet Navy a true blue water aviation capability. The ship would have been about 75-80,000 tons displacement, with a nuclear power plant and carried about 70 aircraft launched via steam catapults. It was designed with a large offensive capability with the ship mounts including 24 vertical launch tubes for anti-ship cruise missiles.^[1] It was cancelled as being too expensive and a reduced version of 60,000 tons and fifty aircraft was proposed. This was also turned down for cost reasons.

Project Orel would have resulted in a program very similar to the aircraft carriers available to the U.S. Navy. While the project never saw fruition, it later resulted in the abortive Ulyanovsk program. The ship class was codenamed after the Eagle (Орёл), as all major Soviet ship classes were named after birds (see Russian ship naming conventions); the actual projected name of the class is not known.

References

↑ http://www.russiafile.com/orel.htm

External links

"Project 1143.7 Orel Ul'yanovsk class," GlobalSecurity.org.
"A Brief Look at Russian Aircraft Carrier Development," Robin J. Lee.

v t e Soviet Navy and Russian Navy ship classes after World War II

Aircraft carriers	Moskva OREL¹ Kiev Admiral Kuznetsov Ulyanovsk¹

Battlecruisers	Kronshtadt ¹ Stalingrad ¹ Kirov

Cruisers	Sverdlov Kynda Kresta I Kresta II Kara Slava

Destroyers	Skoryy Neustrashimy Kotlin Kildin Krupny Kanin Kashin Sovremenny Udaloy

Frigates	Kola Riga Petya Mirka Koni Burevestnik Gepard Neustrashimyy Novik¹ Admiral Gorshkov Admiral Grigorovich

Corvettes	Poti Pauk Parchim Nanuchka Tarantul Bora Grisha Buyan Steregushchy Gremyashchy

P / M / T boats	Kronshtadt Komar Osa Shershen Stenka Turya Matka Muravey Sarancha Svetlyak Rubin

Minesweepers	T43 T58 Yurka Natya Gorya Sasha Vanya Zhenya Sonya Yevgenya Alexandrit

Amphibious ships	Ivan Rogov Alligator Ropucha Polnocny Dyugon Ivan Gren Mistral

Air-cushioned crafts	Gus Lebed Tsaplya Aist Zubr Czilim ³

Patrol icebreakers	Ivan Susanin Purga

Other vessels	SSV-33 Primor'ye Balzam Vishnya Don Ugra Smolnyy Dunay Yury Ivanov

¹ Cancelled. ² To be purchased. ³ Border Guard service.

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