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Russia claims it's in the early stages of developing an aircraft carrier that can hold 100 planes
Business Insider ^ | 10 February 2015 | Jeremy Bender

Posted on 02/11/2015 5:27:03 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki

Russia's government-owned Krylov State Research Center is on its way towards developing Russia's latest aircraft carrier, according to Russian media.

The aircraft carrier is in a very rudimentary stage of its development. It's still under conceptual testing in Krylov's laboratory.

But if the tests prove successful and the carrier's design is deemed plausible, the research center will follow through with a 1:1 scale metal mock-up of the carrier (China may have just constructed its own mock-up of a new carrier).

According to Russia's TV Vezda, the carrier would be able to stow 100 aircraft onboard. The body of the carrier is also being designed to minimize drag by 20% compared to past Russian carriers. If built, the vessel would be Russia's first carrier to debut since the Admiral Kuznetsov, which launched in 1985. The Kuznetsov is Russia's only functioning carrier.

TV Vezda also stated that the ship would feature catapults on the ship's top to launch aircraft during storms. However, this claim is countered by the fact that the carrier's models feature a ski-ramp style aircraft in the front aircraft takeoff like older Soviet models, which did not have catapults .

The Russian carrier, if constructed, would be slightly larger than the US's current Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which can carry around 90 aircraft.

However, any indication of Russian plans should be taken with skepticism. The carrier is still in a conceptual phase and only a scaled mockup has been built so far. Any plans for Russia's construction of the carrier could also be seriously hampered as Moscow is expected to enter a recession due to current economic sanctions and the falling value of the Russian ruble. It might not have the money for this ambitious of a military project, especially with so many other needs.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aircraftcarrier; krylov; navair; russia
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1 posted on 02/11/2015 5:27:04 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Is Rooshin, must be beegger.

That worked so well during the USSR years.


2 posted on 02/11/2015 5:28:43 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Lease one of ours, we’re not using ‘em...


3 posted on 02/11/2015 5:31:43 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

There will be a protracted study, design, and engineering phase, with schedule delays, bloated budgets, and mysteriously missing funds. Eventually, the project will be revised for a new concept with a new round of funding. The chance of a major Russian naval aircraft carrier ever being deployed is nil.


4 posted on 02/11/2015 5:33:37 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Jack or block planes?


5 posted on 02/11/2015 5:33:42 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Any investment in huge surface warships is foolish. These ships are very vulnerable to flocks of “seagull drones” each packed with 1 kg of C4 plastique, launched by a submarine hundreds of miles away and directed to target via satellite. These big ships simply cannot survive.


6 posted on 02/11/2015 5:35:32 AM PST by allendale
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To: sukhoi-30mki
However, any indication of Russian plans should be taken with skepticism.

Holds true for anything you read these days. Didn't Brian Williams do a report on this.

7 posted on 02/11/2015 5:37:07 AM PST by McGruff (Haters Gonna Hate)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Coming to you in the year 2077!


8 posted on 02/11/2015 5:37:53 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Well, if it fails they can always sell it off to India then charge them out the butt to refit it.


9 posted on 02/11/2015 5:38:56 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

That will be a mighty big target.


10 posted on 02/11/2015 5:39:57 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: OpusatFR

It’s no accident that the concept of a Potemkin Village is Russian too. I remember the MiG 25 Foxbat at the best aircraft of its time until we got our hands on it. Rust on the body, engines that burned out at full throttle, junk.


11 posted on 02/11/2015 5:40:06 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: Rockingham

Considering that the carriers Russia has/had were built in Ukraine, the question is where will Russia built a new one. That area in Ukraine is still controlled by Kiev.


12 posted on 02/11/2015 5:46:21 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: sukhoi-30mki
 photo fail_zps002520d0.jpg Design fail...those oars won't reach the water.
13 posted on 02/11/2015 5:47:37 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

nice bannister,, or is that balusters??


14 posted on 02/11/2015 5:47:38 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: armydawg505

That Japs had one huge battleship during WWII that the U.S. sunk before it could do any damage. I could be wrong when it was sunk but I think it happened about the same time as the battle of Midway. Can’t remember the name of it but I think Yamamoto was on board at the time it went down.

OK WWII historians, lets hear it.


15 posted on 02/11/2015 5:48:35 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: sukhoi-30mki
OK, whatever.

Looking back, it's hard to believe we ever used to worry about these folks.

16 posted on 02/11/2015 5:51:36 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: DaveA37

There were two- the Yamato and the Musashi. Torpedos and aerial bombing did them both in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship


17 posted on 02/11/2015 5:52:14 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Old Sarge

Lol.

Am wondering this piece for starters..


18 posted on 02/11/2015 5:54:57 AM PST by odds
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To: allendale

Oh, they plan to do something about US satellites too. Never mind all the hacking going on by their buddies in Red China.

I’m just wondering about the ship’s propulsion. Unless it’s nuclear, how will it be able to hold enough fuel to get halfway across the Pacific?


19 posted on 02/11/2015 5:55:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: DaveA37

Yamamoto was killed when his Betty bomber was shot down by P-38’s while he was visiting islands in the Pacific.


20 posted on 02/11/2015 5:55:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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