page_title: Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk
section_title: Air group
hierarchical_section_title: Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk / Air group
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Самолеты Як-44 и МиГ-29 на палубе ТААКР "Ульяновск"
context_page_description: Ulyanovsk, Soviet designation Project 1143.7, was a fixed-wing aircraft carrier laid down on 25 November 1988 as the first of a class of Soviet nuclear-powered supercarriers. It was intended for the first time to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Navy. The ship would have been equipped with steam catapults that could launch fully loaded aircraft, representing a major advance over the Kuznetsov class, which could only launch high-powered aircraft from their ski-jumps. However, construction of Ulyanovsk was stopped at about 40% after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
context_section_description: The Ulyanovsk air group was to include 68 aircraft with the following planned composition:
  44 fighter aircraft, combination of Sukhoi Su-33 (Su-27K) and Mikoyan MiG-29K fighters
  6 Yakovlev Yak-44 RLD Airborne early warning aircraft
  16 Kamov Ka-27 Anti-submarine warfare helicopters
  2 Ka-27PS Air-sea rescue helicopters
  The ship was equipped with two "Mayak" steam catapults made by the Proletarian factory, a ski-jump, and 4 arresting gear. For storing aircraft, it had a 175×32×7.9-m hangar deck with aircraft elevated to the flight deck by 3 elevators with carrying capacities of 50 tons (two on the starboard side and one on the port). The stern housed the "Luna" optical landing guidance system.
caption: Yak-44 and Su-33 on the deck ATAKR Ulyanovsk
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