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A port view of the island superstructure and radar equipment on the Soviet Kiev class VSTOL aircraft carrier BAKU (CVHG 103).  Radar installations on the Baku exhibit extensive technological changes from the other three Kiev class carriers

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A port view of the island superstructure and radar equipment on the Soviet Kiev class VSTOL aircraft carrier BAKU (CVHG 103). Radar installations on the Baku exhibit extensive technological changes from the other three Kiev class carriers

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Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Scene Camera Operator: LT P.J. Azzolina

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Cold War era aerial photographs of the Soviet Kiev class aircraft carriers made by US Navy pilots.

Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.

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01/06/1988
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The U.S. National Archives
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