Kuznetsov is tied up in Murmansk for a refit and needs to be reboilered.
Originals were made in Ukraine, fat chance of getting replacements from that source.
Next long voyage will be likely be to the breakers in the subcontinent in a few years.
Posted on 08/30/2018 8:58:04 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday it would hold a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea from Sept. 1 to Sept. 8, the TASS news agency reported, a move that coincides with rising tensions between Moscow and Washington over Syria.
Russia has this month been actively expanding its naval forces in the Mediterranean, part of what a Russian newspaper on Tuesday called Moscow's largest naval build-up since it entered the Syrian conflict in 2015.
TASS cited the defense ministry as saying that 25 warships and submarines and 30 planes, including fighter jets and strategic bombers, would take part, and that the drills would involve anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-mining exercises.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that militants in Idlib had to be liquidated, describing them as “a festering abscess.”
Russian Black Sea fleet doesn’t have nearly that many active ships.
the Northern Fleet better take tugs or contract for some out of Harwich or Rotterdam. Wouldn’t do for their rattletrap navy to go dead in the water in the Channel.
LOL, the Admiral Kudnetsov will be there too, towed by two tugs and marking their position with a large column of black smoke from her stack!
With her engines going full steam, belching black smoke from the stack, and the tugs pulling for all they are worth, they might get enough of a breeze over the deck to launch a plane!
Ah. Never mind. She will be drydocked until about 2025 getting “upgraded”. (They said 2020 last year, but a contract to do the work hadn’t even been signed)
Yes, there are some great shots of their one aircraft carrier transiting the Channel looking like it burns coal.
Kuznetsov is tied up in Murmansk for a refit and needs to be reboilered.
Originals were made in Ukraine, fat chance of getting replacements from that source.
Next long voyage will be likely be to the breakers in the subcontinent in a few years.
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