Editing Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier (section)

{{Short description|Russian and Chinese ship class}}
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{{Infobox ship image
| Ship image = MilitarySportsHoliday2017-02.jpg
| Ship image size = 300px
| image alt = An overhead view of ''Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov''.
| Ship caption = ''Admiral Kuznetsov'' in 2017
}}
{{Infobox ship class overview
| Name = ''Kuznetsov'' class
| Builders = *[[Black Sea Shipyard|Chernomorskiy Shipyard 444]]
*[[Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company|Dalian Shipbuilding Industry]]
| Operators = *{{navy|Soviet Union}}
*{{navy|Russia}}
*{{navy|China}}
| Class before = {{sclass|Kiev|aircraft carrier|4}}
| Class after = *{{ship|Soviet aircraft carrier|Ulyanovsk||2}} class (USSR &mdash; cancelled)
*[[Project 23000 aircraft carrier|Project 23000]] (Russia &mdash; planned)
*[[Type 003]] (China &mdash; launched)
| Subclasses = *[[Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning|Type 001]]
*[[Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong|Type 002]]
| Cost = 
| Built range = 1982–2019
| In service range = 
| In commission range = 25 December 1990–present
| Total ships building = 
| Total ships planned = 
| Total ships completed = 3
| Total ships cancelled = 
| Total ships active = 2 (Chinese PLA Navy) (+1 inactive Russian Navy vessel undergoing refit)
| Total ships lost = 
| Total ships retired = 
| Total ships laid up = 
| Total ships preserved = 
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
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| Header caption = 
| Ship type = [[Aircraft cruiser]]/[[Aircraft carrier]]
| Ship displacement = *{{convert|43000|t|LT|lk=on|abbr=on}}, light<ref name="Kuzspecs">{{cite web |url=http://rusnavy.com/nowadays/strength/surfaceships/kuznetzov/ |title=Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov |website=Rusnavy.com |access-date=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216124735/http://rusnavy.com/nowadays/strength/surfaceships/kuznetzov/ |archive-date=16 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Kuznetsov specifications">{{cite web |title=Kuznetsov Class – Project 1143.5 |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1143_5-specs.htm |website=Globalsecurity.org |date=7 September 2011 |access-date=22 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008153638/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1143_5-specs.htm |archive-date=8 October 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{convert|55000|t|LT|abbr=on}}, standard<ref name="Kuzspecs" /><ref name="Kuznetsov specifications" /><ref name="ReferenceA"/>
*{{convert|58600|t|LT|abbr=on}}, max<ref name="Kuzspecs" /><ref name="Kuznetsov specifications" />
| Ship length = {{convert|305|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|72|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| Ship height = 
| Ship draught = {{convert|11|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| Ship power = 
| Ship propulsion = *Steam turbines {{convert|80000|shp|lk=on|abbr=on}}<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
*{{convert|200000|shp|abbr=on}}
| Ship speed = {{convert|29|kn|lk=in}}
| Ship range = * {{convert|8500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|18|kn|abbr=on}} 
* {{convert|3800|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|29|kn|abbr=on}}
| Ship endurance = 
| Ship troops = 
| Ship complement = 1,500
| Ship time to activate = 
| Ship sensors = 
| Ship EW = 
| Ship armament = *  (''Kuznetsov'') 
**12 [[P-700 Granit]] (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) anti-ship missiles<ref name="bbc.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/world/2016/10/161026_spain_russia_carrier |title=俄羅斯航母戰鬥群取消停靠西班牙港口補給 |trans-title=Russian aircraft carrier battle group cancels docking at Spanish port for supply |website=BBC 中文网 |date=26 October 2016 |access-date=27 November 2017 |language=zh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216073302/http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/world/2016/10/161026_spain_russia_carrier |archive-date=16 December 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
**192 [[Tor Missile System#3K95 Kinzhal (naval variant)|3K95 Kinzhal]] (SA-N-9 Gauntlet) SAMs<ref name="bbc.com"/>
**8 [[Kashtan CIWS|Kashtan]] CIWS mounts
**6 [[AK-630]] AA guns
**1 [[Udav-1 anti-submarine system|UDAV-1]] ASW rocket launcher
*(''Liaoning'' and ''Shandong'')
**3 × Type 1130 CIWS
**3 × [[HQ-10]] SAMs
| Ship armour = 
| Ship aircraft = *30–50<ref name="bbc.com"/>
* 18–32 × fixed-wing aircraft
* 18–24 × helicopters
| Ship aircraft facilities = *Angled arrested landing flight deck
*[[Aircraft ski-jump|Bow ski-jump]]
| Ship notes = 
}}
|}

The '''''Kuznetsov''-class aircraft carrying cruiser''' (Russian: Авиано́сцы ти́па «Кузнецо́в» ''Avianо́stsii Tipa "Kuznetsо́v"''), Soviet designation '''Project 1143.5''', is a class of [[STOBAR]] [[aircraft carrier]]s operated by the [[Russian Navy|Russian]] and [[People's Liberation Army Navy|Chinese]] navies. Originally designed for the [[Soviet Navy]], the ''Kuznetsov''-class ships use a [[ski-jump (aviation)|ski-jump]] for [[takeoff|launching]] high-performance [[jet aircraft]] and [[arrestor gear]]s for [[landing]]. The design represented a major advance in Soviet fleet aviation over the {{sclass|Kiev|aircraft carrier|0}} carriers, which did not have full-length [[flight deck]] and could only launch [[VSTOL]] aircraft. The Soviet Union's classification for the class was as a [[aircraft cruiser|heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser]], which permits the ships to transit the Turkish Straits without violating the [[Montreux Convention]].<ref name="miller1990"/> However, the Chinese variants are classified as aircraft carriers.

Because of the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, the three ''Kuznetsov''-class ships were built over a protracted construction period of almost four decades. Two ships were originally laid down at the [[Black Sea Shipyard|Nikolayev South Shipyard]] in the [[Ukrainian SSR]], to be followed by the first of the [[Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk|''Ulyanovsk''-class]] nuclear-powered [[supercarrier]]s. Only the lead ship {{ship|Russian aircraft carrier|Admiral Kuznetsov||2}} had been commissioned when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, and the ship now serves in the [[Russian Navy]]. Construction of her sister ship ''Varyag'' was abandoned until 1998, when an independent [[Ukraine]] sold the uncompleted ship to China for use as a [[floating casino]], along with a complete set of design blueprints. After a protracted [[tugboat|towed]] journey through three different oceans, ''Varyag'' arrived at the [[Dalian Shipyard]] and was eventually completed and commissioned in 2012 as China's first aircraft carrier, the '''Type 001''' aircraft carrier {{ship|Chinese aircraft carrier|Liaoning||2}}. China subsequently constructed a third ship to a modified '''Type 002''' design, commissioning {{ship|Chinese aircraft carrier|Shandong||2}} in 2019.