Posted on 02/11/2015 5:27:03 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Russia's government-owned Krylov State Research Center is on its way towards developing Russia's latest aircraft carrier, according to Russian media.
The aircraft carrier is in a very rudimentary stage of its development. It's still under conceptual testing in Krylov's laboratory.
But if the tests prove successful and the carrier's design is deemed plausible, the research center will follow through with a 1:1 scale metal mock-up of the carrier (China may have just constructed its own mock-up of a new carrier).
According to Russia's TV Vezda, the carrier would be able to stow 100 aircraft onboard. The body of the carrier is also being designed to minimize drag by 20% compared to past Russian carriers. If built, the vessel would be Russia's first carrier to debut since the Admiral Kuznetsov, which launched in 1985. The Kuznetsov is Russia's only functioning carrier.
TV Vezda also stated that the ship would feature catapults on the ship's top to launch aircraft during storms. However, this claim is countered by the fact that the carrier's models feature a ski-ramp style aircraft in the front aircraft takeoff like older Soviet models, which did not have catapults .
The Russian carrier, if constructed, would be slightly larger than the US's current Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which can carry around 90 aircraft.
However, any indication of Russian plans should be taken with skepticism. The carrier is still in a conceptual phase and only a scaled mockup has been built so far. Any plans for Russia's construction of the carrier could also be seriously hampered as Moscow is expected to enter a recession due to current economic sanctions and the falling value of the Russian ruble. It might not have the money for this ambitious of a military project, especially with so many other needs.
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Is Rooshin, must be beegger.
That worked so well during the USSR years.
Lease one of ours, we’re not using ‘em...
There will be a protracted study, design, and engineering phase, with schedule delays, bloated budgets, and mysteriously missing funds. Eventually, the project will be revised for a new concept with a new round of funding. The chance of a major Russian naval aircraft carrier ever being deployed is nil.
Jack or block planes?
Any investment in huge surface warships is foolish. These ships are very vulnerable to flocks of “seagull drones” each packed with 1 kg of C4 plastique, launched by a submarine hundreds of miles away and directed to target via satellite. These big ships simply cannot survive.
Holds true for anything you read these days. Didn't Brian Williams do a report on this.
Coming to you in the year 2077!
Well, if it fails they can always sell it off to India then charge them out the butt to refit it.
That will be a mighty big target.
It’s no accident that the concept of a Potemkin Village is Russian too. I remember the MiG 25 Foxbat at the best aircraft of its time until we got our hands on it. Rust on the body, engines that burned out at full throttle, junk.
Considering that the carriers Russia has/had were built in Ukraine, the question is where will Russia built a new one. That area in Ukraine is still controlled by Kiev.
Design fail...those oars won't reach the water.
nice bannister,, or is that balusters??
That Japs had one huge battleship during WWII that the U.S. sunk before it could do any damage. I could be wrong when it was sunk but I think it happened about the same time as the battle of Midway. Can’t remember the name of it but I think Yamamoto was on board at the time it went down.
OK WWII historians, lets hear it.
Looking back, it's hard to believe we ever used to worry about these folks.
There were two- the Yamato and the Musashi. Torpedos and aerial bombing did them both in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship
Lol.
Am wondering this piece for starters..
Oh, they plan to do something about US satellites too. Never mind all the hacking going on by their buddies in Red China.
I’m just wondering about the ship’s propulsion. Unless it’s nuclear, how will it be able to hold enough fuel to get halfway across the Pacific?
Yamamoto was killed when his Betty bomber was shot down by P-38’s while he was visiting islands in the Pacific.
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