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From: 002@pnet16.cts.com (J.W.Cupp Lcdr/Usn)
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Subject: Soviet use of "Aircraft Carrier" title
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Date: 30 May 91 21:55:00 GMT
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From: 002@pnet16.cts.com (J.W.Cupp Lcdr/Usn)


I don't think the Soviet Union has given up calling their largest ships
cruisers...I read in the Naval Institute "Proceedings" there was a flap when
one reporter called the latest TBILISI class an aircraft-carrier.  The Navy
officially rebutted that, stating that it was more accurately an
"aircraft-carrying cruiser."

The agreements concerning ships passing through Turkey are quite official, and
as far as I've ever been told scrupulously adhered to by the Soviet Navy.

        J. W. Cupp

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