Well, since Russia cannot construct anything new larger than a destroyer currently, all this drone carrier is just empty talk. The same goes with the current carrier, since it is beyond the scope of shipyards to repair in reasonable time frames. Looking back the best choice would be for the ship to be repaired in Chinese shipyards but this is out of the question now since the ship is too old.
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Correction, can't construct anything larger than a frigate. I don't believe any new destroyers entered service since the collapse of the USSR. Refurbished ones, sure, but no newly designed, newly constructed destroyers.
Project 11711M - 8000 tons displacement.
Project 955A - 15000 tons.
Project 22220 - 26000 tons.
Project 23900 - 40000 tons.
Project 19510 - 70000 tons.
Russia has like two shipyards which can build large carriers. Zvezda in the Pacific and Sevmash in the Atlantic. Zvezda can build them as is, Sevmash would need a larger basin.
Zaliv shipyard in Kerch can build mid sized carriers.
Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg can build cruisers. They used to build Kirov class ships.
Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad and Severnaya Verf in St. Petersburg can build destroyers. They used to build Udaloy class ships.
It is just that it makes little sense to build large ships when you don't even have enough small ones. The corvette and frigate program was delayed like a decade with sanctions after invasion of Crimea.
It is expected that Amur shipyard in the Pacific will start building frigates.
Project 955A - 15000 tons.
Project 22220 - 26000 tons.
Project 23900 - 40000 tons.
Project 19510 - 70000 tons.
Russia has like two shipyards which can build large carriers. Zvezda in the Pacific and Sevmash in the Atlantic. Zvezda can build them as is, Sevmash would need a larger basin.
Zaliv shipyard in Kerch can build mid sized carriers.
Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg can build cruisers. They used to build Kirov class ships.
Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad and Severnaya Verf in St. Petersburg can build destroyers. They used to build Udaloy class ships.
It is just that it makes little sense to build large ships when you don't even have enough small ones. The corvette and frigate program was delayed like a decade with sanctions after invasion of Crimea.
It is expected that Amur shipyard in the Pacific will start building frigates.
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Ships, Subs, drones and ice breakers in Navy doctrine 2050 every thing connected to Space. I dont see Aircraft carrier with its deficient systems like small AWACS can stand some thing like Tu-160M2 when you see the power difference.
Drones are much lighter (foldable/unscrew) with increase automation much less human involvement for entire ship. Drones should be able to lunch antiship missiles along with survellence for long range hypersonic missiles. they are already put radar on Forpost-R which provide guidance to ship launched missiles. Definition of Blue water navy need to change considering the tech advancements.
When they talk about resource they talk about Arctic so system should designed for Arctic. Even the Kama Atom EV they took on Ice breaker to test all the systems.
Drones are much lighter (foldable/unscrew) with increase automation much less human involvement for entire ship. Drones should be able to lunch antiship missiles along with survellence for long range hypersonic missiles. they are already put radar on Forpost-R which provide guidance to ship launched missiles. Definition of Blue water navy need to change considering the tech advancements.
When they talk about resource they talk about Arctic so system should designed for Arctic. Even the Kama Atom EV they took on Ice breaker to test all the systems.
Footage of the launch of the updated Russian drone "Lancet-51", officially called "Product 51", by ZALA. The video shows the new launcher that we showed earlier. The updated drone "Lancet-51" is equipped with a new battery, camera and communications equipment. Presumably, it can now fly at a range of up to 100 km. The drones have a homing system for the target. The launch is carried out by servicemen of the 346th Guards Special Forces Brigade, the "South" group of troops. It is worth noting that the British Ministry of Defense called the Lancet drones one of the best combat systems.
Also, that aside - If the Kuznetsov's scrapping did go through, that means Kuznetsov and her twin sister ex-Varyag would never have a chance to reunite (where both are in operational status) ever since their forceful separation in December 1991.
Kinda sad when you think about it.
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Mr. Xu retired many years ago and he has been out of the focus of the media. My advice to Russian is to give it to Indian as a free gift. Then just let Indian handle it by themselves. Most likely, Indian will come back to ask Russian for help for upgrade.
for UEC UMPO 100 year celebration they are sending aerobatic team to UFA. This largest engine manufacturer almost 30K employees and main product is for Su-34. Su-34 performed the most long range sorties about 6 per day per aircraft when look at size of fleet. it should be larger than 200.