Aircraft Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov: News #2

Russia could also buy back & finish the Varyag at Nikolayev shipyard.
But getting some of the Tu-95s/160s from Ukraine was more important at the time.

not if it is going to be fought with conventional &/ tactical nuclear arms only.

Russia seeks to prevent WWIII, only the US tries to find ways to "win" WWIII. Imagine if in the current context Kuz was ready to go, and Russia decided to sail a convoy of ships to deliver aid to Venezuela and Kuz went along to support the convoy. I don't think anyone would dare to mess with it, esp knowing a Yassen class was probably prowling within a few hundred KM. Anything that came within a few hundred KM would be visited by MIG-29 with KH-31.

Iran could pay for escorting its tankers on their way there now!

Russia would not have tried to do that because at the time they weren't even using the Kuznetsov... where would they get the money to complete the Varyag? ..They don't need two Soviet era aircraft carriers... just one to maintain skills and to perform duties until a proper replacement is ready in the form of a new design CVN.

The Kirov with the Kuznetsov and a couple of Udaloys and a new frigate could paddle around there for a month doing exercises and showing the flag and escorting vessels to and from the country...

Agree, but they could at least taken it to Sevmash & preserve it till better times. A 2nd CV would allow for extra training, deploymens, & naval diplomacy.

Now the PLAN will use it & her sister ship to defend E. Eurasia maritime approaches & make the US & their allies' lives miserable- payback for using China's card against the USSR during the Cold War.

only if they have the $ to pay for it. Iran could also get those tankers under its naval flag & put marines/soldiers on board. Stopping them would be an act of war, with all bad outcomes for the US in the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan, & Syria.

..for escorts then relatively small corvettes could be used..

USC terminated the contract for modernization of Admiral Kuznetsov with the contractor

MOSCOW, May 21 - RIA News. United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) terminated the contract with the company Investments. Engineering. Construction JSC (I.I.S. JSC) for the construction of a dry dock for the repair of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov , but this is not will affect, told RIA Novosti on Thursday the head of the corporation Alexei Rakhmanov .
Earlier in the media, information appeared that the company I.I.S. filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General against customers of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center construction site and the USC, who allegedly created impossible conditions for the continuation of the dock construction.

"The agreement with I.I.S. JSC was canceled the day before. We are now discussing the choice of a new contractor. There is a choice of three large Russian companies owned by responsible Russian businessmen. The need to start docking the ship was agreed with each of these potential contractors - summer 2021, in order to be in time to deliver it to the customer in 2022, "Rakhmanov said.

In addition, he noted, the previous contractor should report for the spent 900 million from the advance of 2.6 billion rubles.
"The financial condition of the company is unsatisfactory, they took an advance much more than they completed the work. This is not more than 1 percent of the first stage, worth seven billion rubles out of 24," said the head of USC.

As an example, he said that the contractor scored a total of 145 piles out of 728 necessary for the device jumpers and pumping water, in order to subsequently begin work in the dry dock.
At the same time, JSC I.I.S. complains about USC that the customer has created conditions in which reconstruction of the dock becomes impossible. In particular, "I.I.S." received an advance of 2.6 billion rubles from the promised advance of 7.1 billion rubles, and Zvezdochka did not pay approximately 800 million rubles for actually completed work. Also, Zvezdochka delayed the provision of design estimates for the first stage of reconstruction for more than six months, and the second - has not yet been sent, the contractor complained.
In December last year, the “Admiral Kuznetsov” ignition occurred in the first power unit as a result of a spark from welding work entering the hold where fuel was spilled. The fire was extinguished for nearly a day, two people were killed, more than ten were injured. The damage was estimated at 500 million rubles. The head of USC told RIA Novosti that the fire will not affect the deadline for the ship to the fleet in 2022 after repair and modernization. Now the ship is under repair in Murmansk .

In December 2019, the American magazine The National Interest called the Admiral Kuznetsov and other Soviet cruisers of Project 1143 Krechet “just a piece of rust.”

In October 2018, Business Insider wrote that Russian ships embarking on a long voyage during the NATO exercises , accompanied by towing equipment, are emblematic evidence of the biggest problem of the Russian Navy.

PapaDragon wrote:

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Tsavo Lion wrote:"Admiral Kuznetsov" will stop smoking
https://lenta.ru/news/2020/06/26/admiralkuznetsov

hat's good, Smoking is a bad habit, the poor thing was a chain smoker.

He did stop smoking once he was locked up in retirement home and put on life support

Family just can't bring themselves to sign DNR form though

PapaDragon wrote:

And is still failing at being half as useful : ) )

Never any mention about how much Phantoms and B-52s smoke...

Tsavo Lion wrote:

Never any mention about how much Phantoms and B-52s smoke...

FYI, F-4 Phantoms r gone, some still being used as UAV targets, & B-52s r being re-engined.

Then you need to read better, as I said it's nice they fixed that problem, sure I attached a bit of a joke to it.

None of what I said was complaining.

FYI, F-4 Phantoms r gone, some still being used as UAV targets, & B-52s r being re-engined.