They had a nuclear carrier on the slipway in the mid-1980s, the first of the Ulyanovsk class, but ran out of money. The Kirov class nuclear cruisers were formi

They had a nuclear carrier on the slipway in the mid-1980s, the first of the Ulyanovsk class, but ran out of money. The Kirov class nuclear cruisers were formidable, though.