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The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft resembling the United States Navy’s E-2 Hawkeye and intended for use with the Soviet Navy’s Ulyanovsk class supercarriers. Along with the aircraft carrier it would have flown from the Yak-44 was cancelled after the demise of the Soviet Union. A full-scale mock-up with foldable wings was built.