. Hundreds of Marines, dozens of armored vehicles and amphibious operations thousands of kilometers from their native shores: the Russian fleet in the mid-2020s will receive Ships of a fundamentally new class of amphibious assault. Shipbuilders, designers and the military have to negotiate the details of the project and future tasks of the UDC. The helicopter will be built on shipyard "Zaliv" in Kerch. Tab 2-universal dock ships expected in 2020, Their transfer to the Russian Navy is scheduled for 2025 and 2026-y. In future series have the opportunity to continue. on what project will be built Ships, as long as unknown. Remember, after the termination of the contract With France for the production and delivery of helicopter carrier type "Mistral" Russian CB has prepared different options. In 2015 Nevskoe design Bureau introduced the concept of UDC " Surf ". This ship with a displacement of 14 tons is capable to be in Autonomous navigation up to 2 months, distance eleven thousand kilometers." The surf is " designed to accommodate eight helicopters Ka-27 and six landing craft. In addition, the ship can carry up to five hundred troops and 60 armored vehicles. Krylov state research center has made the initiative's own version of helicopter. He's not smaller, is poultryman displacement of 24 thousand tons. On deck and in holds are placed for 16 of the shock Ka-52 helicopters, transport and combat Ka-29 and Ka-27. In the cabin can carry up to five hundred troops and fifty pieces of equipment. The Marines planned to land on the beach with several landing craft "Serna" or " Raptor ". UDC agility - More than twenty knots, the cruising range is presumably the same as " Surf ", but the autonomy of the lower - only about 30 days. For self-defense, the ship has 76 mm gun mount AK-176M, a few 30-mm gun mounts AK-630 Duet, a pair of anti-aircraft complex "Armour-ME" and ASW complex " Package-NK ". I must say, the Russian military already has experience in building such vessels. However, military doctrine assumed a significant difference from the Soviet helicopter carrier from "aliens" - both externally and for range of tasks. The Soviet Union did not plan to attack the banana Republic, adjusting to Their shores, the Ships docks With helicopters, to clean the shore and land troops under cover From the air. Amphibious operations in the Soviet Union was given a secondary role, And For the delivery and landing of Marines on shore, as a rule, used large amphibious Ships. Soviet admirals much more worried about the nuclear submarines of the probable enemy. In the 1960s Shipbuilders received an assignment to create a cruiser-helicopter carrier To combat submarines capable of their forces to locate, track and destroy Them far from their bases. After a few years the black sea fleet were equipped with 2 such cruisers project 1123 " Kondor ". The ships bore the names of "Moscow" and " Leningrad ". Their design can be called unusual. If the front looked quite familiar - in the form of a Latin V, towards the midsection of the body greatly expanded. On top of the ship resembled a pear. Such decision has allowed to increase the area of the flight deck. in the hangar housed up to 14 anti-submarine helicopters, which in turn flew on a combat patrol, were thrown into the sea, sonar buoys and intelligence." Condors " had in the cabin a powerful radar equipment and weapons. Cruisers equipped with anti-submarine rocket launcher, firing, And among them, the ammunition With a nuclear warhead, torpedo tubes caliber of 533 millimeters, rocket mortars, anti-aircraft missiles and artillery. However, there were significant drawbacks. For example, because of irregular shape in the storm Cruisers buried in the wave. Shimmering Through the deck water could easy bring down a piece of equipment. In addition, To control the vehicle and service it systems required quite a lot of hands - the number of crews could reach up to 800 sailors and officers. either way, the Helicopter successfully performed the task in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Besides engaged not only in the direct task - anti-submarine warfare, but participated in search and rescue operations. For example, in 1974, "Leningrad" involved in the mission for mine clearance of the Suez canal. This cruiser was decommissioned from service in 1991 and sold for the metal commercial Indian organizations." Moscow "have lived a little longer - the last exit in the sea was held in 1993, later it turned into a floating barracks, And in 1997 also sold" on the needle ". the Western countries experience in the construction of the helicopter is much richer. Most successful in this case, Americans. Since the mid-1970s, the U.S. Navy stood UDC " Tarawa ". This is a huge expedition Ships, able to deliver to the place of landing operations up to 2 thousand Marines, dozens of armored vehicles and helicopters. "Tarawa" served the us Navy until 2015, to replace them come no less than a modern " Wasp." In addition, the U.S. is already built and included in the Navy the lead ship of a new series of amphibious ships " America ". note that in the USSR there were plans for the construction of landing craft such American. In the mid-1980s, the designers developed the project, amphibious assault ship under the code 11780. He was so similar to the American counterpart, which received the unofficial title of " Ivan tarava ". at 200-metre flight deck of a huge floating dock with a displacement of not less than 30 thousand tons could sit as helicopters and sea planes accommodate the Yak-38. UDC could accommodate more than 1,000 Marines, 40 tanks and fifteen armored vehicles. However, due to disagreements within the military high command, the project was never implemented. And after the destruction of the Soviet Union finally turned. <span style="color:darkgray