"俄羅斯航母戰鬥群取消停靠西班牙港口補給" [Russian aircraft carrier battle group cancels docking at Spanish port for supply]. BBC 中文网 (in Chinese). 26 October 2016. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
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Bodner, Matthew (26 May 2017). "Russia's Putin drafts new rearmament program". Defense News. |quote=Originally designed by the Soviets as a heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, the Russian Navy reportedly removed the old Granit anti-ship missile tubes in the late 2000s to make room for a larger hangar bay. In this role, the service tried to reinvent Kuznetsov as something of a strike carrier. It was never clear that the tubes were really removed.
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Miller, David V.; Hine, Jonathan T. Jr. (31 January 1990). Soviet Carriers in the Turkish Straits(PDF). Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College. Archived(PDF) from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
"俄羅斯航母戰鬥群取消停靠西班牙港口補給" [Russian aircraft carrier battle group cancels docking at Spanish port for supply]. BBC 中文网 (in Chinese). 26 October 2016. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
Miller, David V.; Hine, Jonathan T. Jr. (31 January 1990). Soviet Carriers in the Turkish Straits(PDF). Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College. Archived(PDF) from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
