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Soviet Carrier Force in WWII

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upnorth:
I've often mulled over the possibility of the Soviet navy being involved in the Pacific Theatre of WWII as a carrier equipped force.

Say Japan launched a serious offensive up the Kamchatka Peninsula to attack Vladivostok to grab land further north to stage attacks into Alaska.

Through lend-lease, the Soviets could get carriers and relevant aircraft to help deal with the issue in the north Pacific while American and Commonwealth forces stayed focused on matters further south.

Granted, I haven't really looked deeply into the real world plausibility of the concept.

However, I've always thought that the Hellcat, Corsair, Firefly and Avenger would look super cool with the Red Star on them.

Navalized Yak-3, Yak-9, La-7 and Pe-2 variants also would be pretty cool.

What do you folks say?

GTX_Admin:
Some real world Soviet carrier designs:

Project 69AV (1945): Kronshtadt class battlecruiser conversion into carrier
Project 71A (1936): 13,000-ton Light Carrier Design
 Project 71B (1937): 22,000-ton Fleet Carrier Design
Project 72 (1942): 37,000-ton Fleet Carrier Design

Spey Phantom:
interesting thought, would have made the upcoming cold was very interesting.
some carrier based Su-2's, Mig-3, maybe even a Mig-9  8)

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280478


found these on Google images

Cliffy B:
Check out these threads over on Secret Projects for a nice compilation of designs.  You'll need to be a member though to see the images.

Carriers:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1948.0.html

Aircraft:  Check out the TBF-like torpedo bomber design  8)
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,356.0.html

To add to Greg's list:

Project 66AV or 68AV? (1953): Carrier design based on Project 66 Heavy Cruiser or Sverdlov class Light Cruiser?
Project 69AV (1945): Kronshtadt class Battle Cruiser conversion into Carrier
Project 71A (1936): 13,000-ton Light Carrier Design
Project 71B (1937): 22,000-ton Fleet Carrier Design
Project 72 (1942): 37,000-ton Fleet Carrier Design
Project 85 (1954): 30,500-ton Light Carrier design
Project 1020.0 (1980): 30,000-ton Helicopter Carrier design
Project 1058.1 (1937): 74,000-ton Battle Carrier design (Gibbs & Cox project)
Project 1123 (1962): Moskva class Helicopter Carrier
Project 1123.3 (1968): Modernized Moskva class Helicopter Carrier design
Project 1143.0 (1970): Kiev class Carrier
Project 1143.2 (1972): Modified Kiev class Carrier Minsk
Project 1143.3 (1975): Improved Kiev class Carrier Novorossiysk
Project 1143.4 (1978): Kiev Mod class Carrier Baku
Project 1143.5 (1982): Admiral Kuznetsov class Carrier
Project 1143.5M (??): Modernized Admiral Kuznetsov class Carrier design
Project 1143.6 (1985): Modified Admiral Kuznetsov class Carrier
Project 1143.7 (1988): Ulyanovsk Class nuclear-powered Carrier
Project 1153 (1977): 70,000-ton Nuclear powered Carrier design
Project 1160 (1972): 80,000-ton Nuclear powered Carrier design
Project 1178 (1990): 44,000-ton Helicopter Carrier design


I found these on the net somewhere and are the only "high-res" versions of any of the designs I could find.  I cleaned them up and re-oriented the top down view to align with the rest of the views.  They were pointing to the left while every other view was to the right  ??? 

Make sure you click on them to get the full size versions.

Project 69AV:


Project 71:  Best I can tell its based on a Sverdlov CL as well.  If you compare the hull sections and inboard profiles they are a match!  Think I've found another project!!!


Project 72:


Project Kostromitinov CV:  (No idea what the Project # is...anyone??)

GTX_Admin:
I have also long thought of a Soviet Carrier force.  for a WWII or just post WWII scenario, I would consider either Il-2/Il-10 in the strike role, possibly with torpedo or maybe a SU-2.  In the Fighter role, either Yak-9 or Yak-3 or La-5/7/9?

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