As a result, in the plan approved by the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B) and the Council of Ministers of the USSR of November 27, 1945, there were no aircraft carriers. In real history, these strategic positions have been lost, and in fact they are pinned down by German forces besieging them. During the period leading up to the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US Navy was racing to build a fleet capable of taking on the Germans in the Atlantic and the Japanese in the Pacific. Since in many cases the project numbers for ships built abroad were assigned after they were accepted into the Navy, very often the construction number of the lead vessel was used as the. It matches the book but the secondaries are 4in, not 4.5in and the turrets have slab, sloped faces. (HER3.1) HEAVY CRUISER (CA): The Nomad Heavy Cruiser played a crucial role in the Collaboration. Furious, Khrushchev ordered to send even "useless" aircraft carrier scrapped, but in time to change his mind. ww2 soviet cruisers October 20, 2022 by dreadnaughtz WW2 Soviet Cruisers Between prewar, interwar and cold war designs, the Soviet Union's Navy (Sovietsky Flota) aligned about 32 cruisers, many after the 1917 being relics of the pf even before the war of 1877 or the Russo-Japanese war. The IJN heavy cruiser Chikuma (or protected cruiser to be precise) class was succeeded by a series of heavy cruisers that grew increasingly powerful with each passing year. Heavy Cruisers successes against warplanes (confirmed by Luftwaffe archives): 23/Aug/1941 Unidentified German reconnaissance plane shot down by Kirov, over Tallinn. Although the standard displacement of an aircraft carrier being built in Molotovsk did a little superior to that of the U.S. aircraft carriers, such as "Midway", but the full displacement American ships still ahead of the new Soviet. 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However, there was a battle raging against Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, and both ships would proveto be formidable air defense platforms in the air battles around Iwo Jima and Okinawa. "Project 22: Heavy cruiser design cancelled 1939" ('List of Russian ships by Project Numbers' from Wikipedia) This doesn't really relate to the game, since it's not one of the existing cruisers, just paper ship talk. The development of the project was led by the 40-year-old chief designer NA Kiselev, who in 1950 ensured the successful completion and delivery of all five cruisers of the 68K project to the fleet, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize. The fact is ships are NOT free or even close. Both also participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the repatriation of American forces back home from overseas. 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