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Posted on 07/11/2025 3:43:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin's only aircraft carrier - the hulking Admiral Kuznetsov - is poised to be scrapped after seven failed years of repairs, say reports.
Work on the jinxed ship, the largest in the Russian navy, has now been suspended despite the efforts to get it back in the water.
News outlet Izvestia cites sources saying the vessel is likely destined for the scrapheap.
Putin's 'Ship of Shame' is languishing in dock in grim Arctic port Murmansk, and has played no role in the war against Ukraine.
Its crew were quietly sent to fight in the war instead.
The 58,000-ton rust bucket - Putin's only aircraft carrier - is now seen as likely never to go to sea again.
Former Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Sergey Avakyants called the decision to stop repair work 'absolutely correct'.
He said today: 'The aircraft carrier is already a fading era.
'It is a very expensive and inefficient naval weapon.
'The future belongs to carriers of robotic complexes and unmanned aviation.
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an Expert is a ‘beginner’ who has FAILED over and over.
The Russian admiral is probably correct. Drone warfare is changing everything, just as the aircraft carrier eventually sent the battleships to the graveyards.
The Admiral is correct. Carriers are not the future. But we find them pretty handy right now.
It’s a steady job, but he wants to be a paperb......
I bet it goes to China…..
Rusting scrap just like russia’s ripe off space shuttles....
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I recall when this thing had to be towed to Syria a few years back. At that time it was an unworkable piece of junk. And I wondered why can’t the Russians get it right? The US and Japanese had aircraft carriers figured out before WWII, and Russia is still tinkering with the idea? Something is terribly wrong.
These are the russkies Democrats and Euroweenies are so worried about.
Nothing.
Look to islam and china for strategic competitors.
The Germans never had one either… and you’d think they would have been one of the first to build one.
Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, Prinz Eugen, Scharnhorst… all of those capital ships… but no carrier.
Lots of U-Boats, though…. They had THAT down to a T…
“Humiliation for Putin as Russia ‘looks set to SCRAP its only aircraft carrier after seven years of failed repairs’”
He got 7 years, wasn’t it the Brits who couldn’t make it out of the North Sea with theirs?
Yep !! 👍 ☺️
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So where are these drones going to come from in the middle of the pacific??
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