Russia developing new aircraft carrier

Interfax ^ | 05/15/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

May 15 2005 11:46AM

Russia developing new aircraft carrier

MOSCOW. May 15 (Interfax) - The Russian Navy is launching a project to develop a new aircraft carrier, the navy's commander Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov told Interfax.

"We are beginning work to develop a new aircraft carrier in 2005. Construction is to begin after 2010," Kuroyedov said.

"We are launching this development project and will involve leading experts to find out which materials and weapons we'll need and how many aircraft carriers should be built," he said.

Kuroyedov earlier told journalists that the navy is planning to put the new carrier into service in the Northern Fleet by 2016-17. Another carrier will be built for the Pacific Fleet, he said. "Deck aviation has a good future. A new multi-purpose aircraft will be created in a few years," Kuroyedov said.

The Russian Navy currently has only one aircraft-carrying cruiser, the Admiral Kuznetsov.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Flush with tons of oil cash, it is only a matter of time for them to start something like this.

[Wiz]

USSR/Russia attempted to develop a new aircraft carrier, Orel Ul'yanovsk class which was to be a super carrier, but the project was cancelled as the Cold War ended in 1991. Ul'yanovysk is the original name of Lenin. Russia was also suffering from getting rid of nuclear submarines relying on foreign funds, but it questions me if there was a constrain getting rid of nuclear submarines, where would the money come from building new air craft carriers.

Orel Ul'yanovsk class

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #2

Might be some kind of blackmail scheme. That is, unless Russia keeps getting money, it will make all penguins, seals, and polar bears radioactive.:-)

[ProudVet77]

Part of Putty's desire to be a world power again. But even when they had the money they could never master real carrier operations. It's actually contrary to most of their military doctrine, which relies on missiles rather than aircraft.

[roaddog727]

"A new multi-purpose aircraft will be created in a few years," Kuroyedov said."

Yeh, F35's bought from us.

Correction: From plans stolen from us.....

[wunderkind54]

Maybe this one will rust less easily!

[RayChuang88]

I think in the end, one of the biggest mistakes of Soviet naval policy was that they never developed a carrier strike force to counter US Navy carriers. Had the Soviets developed carriers, they could have used various Soviet-friendly states along the African coast as secondary bases, which could have seriously threatened all shipping in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

[rodguy911]

Any doubt what Pootie is up to---he wants the old soviet union back ASAP. I think he needed 10 billion in his Swiss a/c before they started on major projects, he must have the dough.

[ProudVet77]

For them to have developed and deployed carriers would have bankrupted them faster than even Reagan did. Carriers require air wings and escorts both very expensive propositions.
The Soviets actually lacked a lot in the engineering and manufacturing skill set. Just look at the quality of their cars. They had/have some great physicists and mathematicians, but lack a strong engineering force. They often lacked skilled technicians to maintain their ships, which is why they had totally redundant systems on most of them, 2 surface search radars, 2 air search radars etc...

[Lockbar]

A stupid waste of their natural, and national resources.

[Deetes]

I wonder how long it will float ?

[USS Alaska]

I read that they are going to balsa wood for the sides and plywood for the deck and power it with oars. Return of the vikings.

[TalBlack]

"I think in the end, one of the biggest mistakes of Soviet naval policy was ....."

Everybody who wants an international voice should carry this modern version of the big stick BUT the cost is simply prohibitive. In truth the Soviets were never really in the black and the cost of a fleet of these behemoths would have exposed them earlier. Also they couldn't really build any components of a Carrier that they hadn't happened to steal yet--another stumbling block.

I think the fact that they didn't build a fleet says volumes about their evil corrupt state and it's true condition.

[MudSlide]

Everything the Russkies ever built was a copy of what someone else built first.

From the Bmw motorcylce to the A Bomb thanks to some American Spies.

[SLB]

fyi

[MudSlide]

Putty Poo wants to put the former Soviet Socialist Republic back together - but there are a lot of former memebers that are not to keen on the idea.

[Deetes]

I read that they are going to balsa wood for the sides and plywood for the deck and power it with oars. Return of the vikings.

LOL

I asked how long? I should have asked if ? It would float ;)

[AppyPappy]

They'll take it down to Brest and honk the horn at the disabled new French carrier.

[Jeff Head]

The two carriers they did produce (one now being studied in Chinese ship yards, the Vayrag) were decent. Probabaly, outside of our CBG's the match for any other carrier out there (UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc.)

The did have a couple of features on the carrier itself that I always felt was significant, the ability to launch anti-surface cruise missiles themselves (including targeting surface ships) with a range of several hundred miles, and the ability to control the battle scene because they mounted their own AEGIS type system on their carriers.

So, they have a capanility, and they now have quite a few years of operational experience.

[Vision]