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Posted on 06/03/2015 9:52:41 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Russia’s defense and industrial sector is developing a promising aircraft carrier for the Navy worth up to $5.6 billion, which has no analogs in the world, Northern Fleet Commander, Admiral Vladimir Korolyov said on Monday.
The new aircraft carrier will enable the Russian Navy to operate more effectively, the admiral said, referring to the developments by the Krylov Research State Center in St. Petersburg but gave no estimates for the new ship.
The center’s developments are known under the codename Project 23000E Storm.
"Considering that the Northern Fleet forces perform a great variety of missions in the distant Oceanic zone, the presence of an aircraft carrier in the fleet in the future will help address these tasks more effectively," the admiral said.
Currently, the Admiral Kuznetsov heavy aircraft carrier bears the main load for the practical drills of deck-based aircraft, the commander said.
‘In a perspective, however, we should have a full-fledged aircraft carrier complex in our fleet surpassing world analogs by its characteristics. This is required by new challenges and threats emerging in the world," the admiral said.
"If we speak about what kind of an aircraft carrier the fleet needs, this should be a ship corresponding to the requirements of tomorrow rather than of today," the Northern Fleet commander said.
Nevskoye Design Bureau Head Sergei Vlasov told Tass news agency the promising aircraft carrier might cost from $1.8 billion to $5.63 billion at the current ruble/dollar exchange rate.
Its development will take about ten years. However, there are no technical specifications for a ship of this class so far, Vlasov said.
Nevertheless, aircraft carriers have been included in Russia’s shipbuilding program until 2050.
The Nevskoye Design Bureau, which is Russia’s sole aircraft carrier designer, is carrying out preparatory works on this project.
Combination Aircraft Carrier / Submarine..................But the second part you USE ONLY ONCE...............
Probably being built from stolen American technology and blueprints.
Depends on a lot of things, it’s survivability.
Or stuff that the Clinton’s passed on.
Waaay back in the day the Soviets used Revell and Monogram models of the George Washington Class SSBN to begin their Yankee Class program. The Monogram model was so precise that it even included hams and beef cuts to hang in the galley’s freezer unit.
Russia is broke so this will never get built. Nothing to worry about here.
Depends on how many life pods they have on board..............
DemoRATS give that information AWAY as “PARTY” Favors.
Putin must own the factory that makes models of proposed Russian warships.
Maybe we could build flying submarines to provide air superiority over large swaths of ocean.
There was recently a thread on FR discussing the fact that gargantuan aircraft carriers were great as a projection of force against weaker nations but not so useful against serious armies such as the US, Russia, and China. I don’t remember all the specifics but the gist was their size, and limited maneuverability made them easy targets for modern missiles.
Big deal.
/s
The world's first all-digital aircraft carrier!
Russians just like to make such announcements to keep their people happy and rarely actually build anything. Helps that the people seem to have a very bad memory and never wonder why these announced megaprojects never go anywhere.
Nor against any navy with half decent submarines, especially SSNs that have the speed to be able to catch up to and intercept them.
Why they think that that is important to emphasize - no analogs - is beyond me. Always good for a laugh those russkies.
And produced on a 3D printer...
It’ll cost between $2 and $6 Billionzzzzz?
Yeah, cuz a budget like that in the business world is totally realistic. ..
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