Soviet ship concepts

[Hobbes]

These are photos of ship models in the Russian Navy museum. Some I've seen before (e.g. the full-size aircraft carrier they were planning), but some are new to me (there's a catamaran helicopter carrier, for instance).
A summary of the photos can be seen here.

[Nick]

Fascinating stuff! Are those E-2 Hawkeye lookalikes actually the unbuilt Yak-44 AEW?

[Aircav]

Must try and get the Airfix Moskav sometime, this looks good to 
http://pilot.strizhi.info/photos/v/Le+Bourget+-+2007/day+4/IMG_4991_sm.jpg.html
Thanks for sharing Harro, some great pictures

[Joe C-P]

I expect those are the YaK-44s. There was one built, or at least a full-scale mock-up constructed.

The problem with catamarans as carriers is the lack of hull depth. The only ways to create a hangar are either a very high superstructure, raising the CoG, or very wide hulls, which isn't beneficial to cataman's performance.

Nice ideas for models there.

[Tophe]

The catamaran carrier is very nice, thanks.