There's all this talk of a resurgent Russian bear (understandable considering their incursions into Georgia in 2008 as well Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014), but they can't seem to even keep their only carrier running. Meanwhile China is already building their third carrier and
recently launched their 2nd one.
UK Defence JournalQuote:
Russia downscales plans to modernise only aircraft carrier citing budget cuts
By
George Allison -
November 2, 2017
Plans to modernise the Admiral Kuznetsov have been downscaled due severe cuts to the Russian defence budget, according to Russian media reports.
A source told the Interfax news website that the budget will likely be reduced by fifty percent from the proposed $800 million.
“Instead of previously planned approximately 50 billion rubles for the work, it is planned to allocate about half of the previously announced amount” the source said.
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