Is it on fire?
Posted on 08/12/2015 6:52:56 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I heard they were building bombers ..??
They can build it as big as they want and as many as they want. They don’t have experience in flight deck operations like our Navy does.
Giant New Aircraft Carrier ?
No, it’s a New Giant Aircraft Carrier.
The picture of the mockup shows what look like banks of oars in the front of the ship. Galley slaves to add a bit more speed?
Even if other nations have stolen copies of plans for American aircraft carriers, actual building and operating them is a whole different story.
Is it on fire?
I think we should encourage the Sov, er, Russkis to build the darn thing. That way they can pour even more money into an enormous hole in the water to project power where they don’t need to be and protect sealanes that are not threatened.
LOL, The smoke makes it look like it’s going backwards pretty fast.
prolly using green wood...
If I’m the Ruskies I’m building tanks and planes....lots of them.
Har! Or maybe they’re burning rubles...
Got some good news and bad news for a you all get an extra ration of rum and Vaseline today bad news is the skipper wants to go water sking in the morning
Ping
a distinct possibility
Stalin had great plans for superbattleships too—on paper only. I think a big gun cruiser might be good for Russia—and some smaller Drone/Helicopter carriers (like the ones they almost bought from France). As for Ukraine they should have seized the shipyards too.
That would be the coolest home ever.
Well, for the Husseins who like *islands* ...it would be the ultimate....unless it was nuclear powered.....it gets gallons to the mile on fossil fuel.
This is fan-bou are to go along with a typical Russian prognmostication about their future prowess.
That carrier will neve be built.
1) It’s a STOBAR carrier, meaning it traps landing aircraft on arrestor wires and has a ski-lift to help launch instead of catapults. But if you simply look at it, across the angled deck, it has no avenue for bolters. This is an aircraft that misses all trap wires and then has to “bolt,” or speed off the end of the angled deck. but this ridiculous design does not allow for that. They sho a ski-jump off the end of the angled deck. Ergo...fan-biu art...not a serious design.
2) If the Russians were capable of, willing to, and could afford a 80,000 ton nuclear powered carrier, IMHO, no way would it be STOBAR in the first place. They are severally limited in the number of sorties they can maintain, and in the weight loads their aircraft and take off with. They would build it CATOBAR like ours...meaning Cats and Traps.
No...this is just an exotic looking piece of art work with no real substance.
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