Posted on 05/15/2015 9:11:55 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A Russian naval design bureau will unveil a new design for a massive aircraft carrier at an upcoming maritime defense industry show in St. Petersburg amid a major Russian arms buildup, magazine IHS Jane's reported Friday.
Known as the Project 23000E, or Shtorm-class, super-carrier, the design by the Krylov State Research Center appears similar to one teased by Russian Defense Ministry television channel TV Zvezda earlier this year.
The unveiling, which is planned for the International Maritime Defense Show 2015 in early July according to IHS Jane's, will come as Russia pushes forward with a 20 trillion ruble ($400 billion) decade-long rearmament program through 2020 intended to revamp the country's armed forces and restore the Russian navy's ability to project power abroad.
“The Project 23000E multipurpose aircraft carrier is designed to conduct operations in remote and oceanic areas, engage land-based and sea-borne enemy targets, ensure the operational stability of naval forces, protect landing troops, and provide the anti-aircraft defense,” Krylov State Research Center deputy director Valery Polyakov told IHS Jane's, a specialized defense industry publication.
The new super-carrier would likely be part of a future armament program, as Russia's shipbuilding industry is currently unable to take on such a project, and the navy's near term strategy is to build up its fleets of smaller vessels.
Weighing in at 100,000 tons, the Shtorm-class is significantly larger and more capable than Moscow's only current aircraft carrier, the 43,000 ton Soviet-built Admiral Kuznetsov.
The scale of new carrier would rival that of the U.S. super-carrier fleet and be one of the world's largest warships — which has raised doubts over Russia's ability to construct such a vessel.
Like every Soviet aircraft carrier before it, Kuznetsov was constructed in the Nikolayev 444 shipyards, located in Ukraine. Russia does not have shipbuilding capacity for a vessel larger than 60,000 tons, experts told The Moscow Times earlier this year.
According to Polyakov, the proposed aircraft carrier will have a length of 330 meters, a width of 40 meters, and keel depth of 11 meters and a top speed of 30 knots, IHS Jane's reported.
Though Zvezda reported that Krylov's design would be powered by a nuclear reactor, Polyakov said the version of the design to be shown in St. Petersburg will run on convention diesel fuel. The design could be tweaked to fit a nuclear system if necessary, he said.
In 2011, Russia also commissioned two 16,500 ton French Mistral-class helicopter carriers for its fleet, but France froze the deal last year over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
Where is Russia getting all the money to build this. I have read that some of these things are pipe dreams. Like Hitler looking at his magnificent city as the bombs were dropping.
How many carrier groups do we have?
And I don’t know if 600 BILLION is really cutting back.
Could go a lot further without graft and waste.
It’s not the dollars, it is what you get for them
just to make it fair
Did they have a layout of where the Vodka distillery is on the ship?
and there probably is one too
saferooms and teddy bears
No, stands for Sh** Storm, because anything Russian made is going to be a whole lot of Sh**!
I figure there has to be one in the plans, they would never be able to find enough Russians that weren't alcoholics to man it.
I guess Russia and China didn’t get that message that aircraft carriers are obsolete
Can they afford the rest of the task group and the replenishment ships that are needed to keep this thing from being a VERY expensive artificial reef if the balloon goes up?
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That is just the way it is.
Right now they can’t even build large ships, they have to have someone build them for them, so the expectation date for this theoretical ship is what, to be completed in 15 or 20 years theoretically?
We should have a SICK military for 600 billion a year!! I hope we do. I know we are not paying the soldiers enough. Need that money for newborn illegals and welfare recipients. /s for those who don't know me by now
Why don’t they just ask Obutthole if they can buy one from us?
Ruskies draw pretty pictures.
F35 and A10 fulfill different roles. A10 is ground-based and designed for ground attack, chiefly tank busting. F35 is ground or ship-based and designed for multiple purposes.
thanks. But if we are planning on getting rid of he A10, what will the new tank buster be?
The A10 was designed long ago with the main intent of devastating Warsaw Pact armored formations in central Europe. Since the likelihood of such an invasion is now deemed unlikely, a dedicated tank buster is deemed unnecessary.
Aircraft carriers are obsolete, as were our battleships in 1941.
Tanks are obsolete.
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