Russia's always has been a brown water/coastal navy.
[Regnum] Russia has developed a conceptual design for the newest aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy. It was presented by the Krylov State Research Center. This was reported on October 11 by the center's general director Oleg Savchenko.
In a conversation with RIA Novosti, he specified that the design of the vessel, called the sea-based aircraft carrier complex, was completed two years ago. The center's specialists continue to provide scientific support for the aircraft carrier project.
At the moment, the Navy has only one aircraft carrier in combat service: Admiral Kuznetsov. It is currently undergoing repairs and modernization.
It is noted that the decision to build a new aircraft carrier has not yet been made.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, 50 new ships will join the Russian Navy by the end of 2024. According to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Viktor Yevtukhov, the list will include boats, as well as small missile ships and support vessels. Last year, 32 ships joined the Russian fleet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the end of last year that five frigates, eight corvettes, 13 small missile ships and more than 50 other ships of various classes were at various stages of completion at Russian shipyards. The head of state emphasized that Russian shipbuilding had entered a new important stage — serial production of combat ships of various classes.
Alexey Rakhmanov, who at that time held the post of head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, stated that the return of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to the navy will take place in 2024. Repair and modernization of the ship began in 2017.
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The US Navy monitored the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in 2011
The US Navy conducted surveillance of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in 2011, when the ship was in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Syria. This is stated in an author's publication by former US Congress employee, analyst Brandon Weichert for The National Interest.
"The U.S. Navy kept a close eye on the carrier while deploying to the Mediterranean to support Syria in 2011," Weichert said.
According to him, the surveillance was allegedly connected with the desire to “help in case the ship starts to sink.”
Weichert did not specify the reason why the Russian ship was supposed to sink.
On December 6, 2011, Admiral Kuznetsov set out with a detachment of Northern Fleet ships to the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Syria.
The heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser was laid down at the Black Sea Shipyard on September 1, 1982 and launched on December 4, 1985. The aircraft carrier was named "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" only on October 4, 1990, having changed several names before that. In January 1991, the ship was assigned to the Northern Fleet.
The ship can accommodate a crew of 1,960 people, including 518 officers and 210 warrant officers. The ship is equipped with four steam turbines with a capacity of 50 thousand horsepower each, nine turbo generators and six diesel generators with a capacity of 1,500 kW each. In addition, the ship is capable of carrying 26 aircraft and 24 helicopters.