According to Russian media reports, Admiral Kusnezow, who has waited for his revitalization, will soon be deported and deleted. The only aircraft carrier in Russia is getting pretty old and the navy of Kremlin Chief Vladimir Putin has recently drawn up more problems than success.
After the only (!) Fighting mission in Syria, the Colossus, completed in 1991, has been at a shipyard in Murmansk since 2017. But the work had to be stopped over and over again. Among other things, a major fire broke out in 2019 as a result of welding work, both killed two officers and countless other crew members were injured.
Profession already sent to the Ukrainian front
There was also a fire alarm in 2022 and the ship had to be evacuated. The huts were identified as a stove of the fire on the pagboard side of the aircraft carrier. According to Russian information, no people were damaged with this fire.
At this point the Admiral Kusnezow should have been repaired a long time ago. But there was nothing of it, especially the costs of the Ukraine war and the sanction-related problems of the country were added. Speaking of the Ukrainian war: according to a current report from the magazine “Military Current”, the crew of Admiral Kusnezow has long been subtracted and included in another unit in the fight against Ukraine.
Expert dispute about the need for aircraft carriers
According to the Russian newspaper “Iswestija”, the fate of the Admiral Kusnezow must be decided. There is still no agreement on the importance of an aircraft carrier in modern warfare. The former commander of the Pacific Fleet, Sergei Awakjanz, sees conversation with the “Moscow times” no longer any use for these types of ships: “The aircraft carrier is a remnant of the past. He is a huge and expensive ship that can be destroyed with modern weapons within a few minutes.” The Russian military expert Wassili Dandykin, who indicates the need for aircraft carriers, sees it completely different when it comes to operations “far from the coasts”. Moreover, the expansion of the Chinese and Indian Marine, which also includes aircraft carriers.
Source: Krone
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