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Originally Posted by Carthaginian
God, I hope so.
It'll also mean 10 Slavas, another Kirov, the Oryel-class CVN, and probably several more Udaloy IIs.
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Only 2 additional improved Slavas after the 4th original Slava (not completed and ceded to Ukraine) were planned at all.
Two hybrid nuclear-gas turbine project 11990 "Anchar" large destroyer/cruisers were planned as the escort for the first Ulyanovsk class CVN.
http://alternathistory.com/files/use...r349/%2001.jpg
Oryel is actually the abandoned mid 70-s 1160 project. The real soviet CVN was the project 11437 Ulyanovsk. One was planned to be bult up to the end of 1995 and one more (slightly improved) afterwards with 8 carriers (4 Kievs, 2 Tbilisi and 2 Ulyanovsk) in commision up to the 2000, not counting the Moskva class CVH.
Originally was planned to buld more Udaloys-II, atl least six. And about the same number of improved Sovremenny (actually built for China in reality). It was projected to built the gas-turbine VLS-armed multipurpose destroyer of the 11560 project afterwards to gradually replace the destroyers older than Sovremenny/Udaloy, but more likely after 1996 still.
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9256/..._3f95e003_orig
Also the fifth Kirov-class CGN was taken into consideration in late 80-s but was abandoned in favor of nuclear carriers.