Russia is Building A New Aircraft Carrier The World Afraid Of
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 Published On Mar 30, 2021

Aircraft carriers have long been a hallmark of world superpowers. On one hand, aircraft carriers can dominate the armed forces of a weaker opponent with ease. They can sail to foreign shores, no matter the distance, and destroy anything they want with their aircraft and the volleys of missiles from supporting ships, well away from any coastal defenses.
The costs of maintaining an aircraft carrier and its supporting ships, on the other hand, are enormous – something that is only feasible for states with very powerful economies.
That's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that only advanced world countries have aircraft carriers. For example, the U.S. Navy has as many as 12 aircraft carriers, which is half of all those existing today in the world.
In the Soviet Union, however, for a long time the idea of building an aircraft carrier was considered unreasonable and for the most part, cruisers and submarines were relied on.
In the 1980s, the USSR began building such ships. However, they managed to build only one—the Kuznetsov—which became part of the Northern Fleet back in 1991. Despite the modernization carried out, by 2030 – 2040 it will finally become obsolete.
Moreover, it was called a "cruiser" for a reason, albeit an aircraft cruiser, but not an aircraft carrier. The Kuznetsov also lacks the catapults that American and some other NATO aircraft carriers are equipped with.
This forces Russian engineers to keep proposing new projects, which, if the money and production capacity were available, would turn into a real aircraft carrier.

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