Russian Carrier Admiral Golovko in the North Pacific, August 2020
The Shtorm class supercarrier was the answer to the air and helicopter carriers used by the other nations of the world, specifically of Japan and the Combined Syndicates, both of which had carrier groups patrolling the waters of the world. The first ship of the class, the Admiral Arseniy Golovko, was commissioned in February of 2020 at the Kronstadt Naval Base in Leningrad. The Shtorm, officially the Project 23000E, was designed in 2015 and laid down in 2017 (under direct orders from STAVKA, things got done quickly), being built and launched under the namesake of Arseniy Golovko, Russian Admiral and naval reformer.
With a 120,000 Ton displacement and 350m length, the Shtorm is the largest carrier on the planet. It is powered by twin nuclear reactors, and has enough armaments stored to level a city. Admiral Golovko has 6 S-400 Triumf Emplacements and 8 AK-730 turrets, as well as dozens of 57E6 missiles for close defense and destroying helicopters and over-ambitious strike craft.
The Shtorm's main armament though, is its complement of Aircraft. The Golovko carries 35 SU-47N and 30 SU-57N strike aircraft, with an enormous maximum range and unequaled armament capacity. The SU-57N is capable of carrying a normal load of missiles and bombs, but also the Kh-47M Kinzhal hypersonic missile, tipped with 250 kiloton nuclear warheads, which are also carried on board. The effective reach of the Golovko, and by extension the Russian Soviet Republic, is therefore the entire planet, as there is nowhere that the combination of ranges of the carrier, the plane, and the missile, cannot go.
The SU-47N, however, is more pedestrian. Not stealth capable, it is slower and better armed, capable of holding 12 AGMs capable of everything from fragmentation or High Explosive to Anti Tank duties or bunker busting. It also carries glide bombs, either on wing struts along side the missiles, or in a bomb bay with only 6. These bombs are usually equipped on a mission-to-mission basis rather than carried at all times. The SU-47N also carries anti-ship missiles, mostly the 3M22.
The Admiral Golovko never goes anywhere alone, despite carrying any armament necessary to defend itself. A Kirov-M nuclear cruiser, the Admiral Gorshkov, and a standard Kirov class, the Leningrad. Two nuclear powered destroyers and six Typhoon Class submarines, as well as air supply if near bases (MI-26 Helicopters can land and take off on the wide deck of the Shtorm class) or troop transports if during wartime.
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