wunder@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Wunderlick) (06/19/91)
From: wunder@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Wunderlick) The following was taken from the "Daily Snap": "New Aircraft Carrier Enters Service" {Note the Aircraft Carrier designation} Primary Source: Pravda Ukrainy, May 15 Extract of Article: The workers of the production association "Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant" in Nikolayev have written a new page in the annals of Soviet Shipbuilding. They have delivered the aircraft carrier "Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov" to the Northern Fleet. The ship is equipped with modern navigation and radar devices and combat technology. It can carry fighters on board. "Our carrier completely meets the requirememnts of Soviet military defense doctrine,"said Captain the First Rank V. S. Yarygin, the ship's commander. "Its basic purpose is the protection of Soviet ships in remote areas of the ocean, beyond the range of land-based aircraft." -------------------------------------- Bob Wunderlick David Taylor Research Center Bethesda, MD
budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) (06/24/91)
From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) Bob Wunderlick notes the delivery of the carrier Kusnetsov. The Russian term for ship is korabl; it applies equally to surface ships as submarines by the dictionary definition. Therefore the requirement to protect ships beyond range of land based aircraft can be interpreted in the Gorshkov sense of protecting submarines just as well as any other interpretation. Rex Buddenberg