[Captain Rhino]

Completely agree with your remarks on the desirability of having E-2 to extend the carrier battle group's surveillance and C2 envelopes.

Thanks for the updates on the MiG-29s and SU-25s. Only occasional come across references to the Kuznetzov at sea. Is she mostly harbor-bound like the other large capital ships of the Russian Navy? Is there a website you can point me to?

[sukhoi-30mki]

It appears that the Kuz has been having a decent time in the past 3 years or so.It's done atleast 2 major exercises with a full complement of SU-33s & last time around deployed the SU-25(a waste of money if you ask me!!).This article says that she is about to have another round of weapons training-

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5471814&startrow=1&date=2005-03-22&do_alert=0