[green team 1999]

VTOL cruiser Minsk, Project 1143 "Krechet", underway. Second of the Kiev class Taktycheskiy Avionosnyy Kreyser (TAKR; Tactical Aviation Cruisers), this ship served in the Pacifc. She went to South Korean shipbreakers in 1995 with her sister Novorossiysk; both had suffered major fires. Surpisingly, however, Minsk has been resold to Chinese interests, and is now moored in a Chinese port, reportedly for use as a casino/entertainment complex.

information at some point is not accurate,one or two carriers?
minsk was operational in the pacific,the other one never finish,so how many the chicoms got?

[Husker24]

I believe I heard something about the Russians selling a carrier to India, this must be the other carrier.

[rightwing2]

information at some point is not accurate,one or two carriers? minsk was operational in the pacific,the other one never finish,so how many the chicoms got?

The ChiComs scored a total of four of the six Russian aircraft carriers--Minsk, Novasibirsk, the supercarrier Varyag, and now Kiev as well. It is conceivable that given time one or more of these carriers will be refitted for use by the PLA Navy. Only Admiral Gorshov and the supercarrier Admiral Kutzenov remained in Russian possession. Kutzenov is flagship of the Russian Northern 'Red Banner' Fleet while Gorshov has been sold to India and is being refitted in a Russian port. As I have stated previously, these carriers were purchased for the purpose of assisting in the ChiCom design of their own class of 60,000 ton carriers for the PLA Navy. They had previously acquired the Australian carrier, HMS Melborne, but have since scrapped it I believe.

[GeronL]

several Russian carriers have been sold to China, I understand an old WW-2 American carrier was sold to China (by Australia?) for scrap. Its deck was moved to land, and Chinese pilots practice landing on it.