The US National Interest Bi -Merchants website published an article on January 1 that for decades, Russia has always wanted to build a nuclear -powered aircraft carrier to compete with the US Navy.However, due to many reasons, Moscow has never completed the plan it formulated.
So what is the reason for failure?With Russia's special military operations in Ukraine, one of the issues raised by people's military technology and weapon systems is that Russia's only aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov Navy Marshal" isParticipate in the current conflict?
Facts have proved that the "Marshal Kuznetsov Navy" was plagued by a lot of problems.It caused a loss of 300 million rubles to 350 million rubles (about $ 0.011) to lose fire.This leads to another question: Why is there no more modern nuclear -powered aircraft carrier in Russia?
Considering the development of Moscow in other aspects of nuclear technology, why did they not yet apply industrial engineering technology to the aircraft carrier?
In response to the above problems, the article states that Russians do not have nuclear -powered aircraft carriers because they lack efforts or desires.
As early as the mid -1980s, the then Soviet government conceived a super aircraft carrier project named after Uriyanovsk, Lenin's hometown.As columnist Paul Richard Valt pointed out: "If it is built, the Soviet super carrier" Uliyanovsk "will be more than 1,000 feet long (about 304.8 meters), and the displacement will reach 85,000The tons and storage volume is enough to carry the maritime giant of the Air Force Brigade of the Air Force of up to 70 fixed wings and rotor planes.The displacement is 102,000 tons.
The keel of the aircraft carrier of "Uliyanovsk" was laid in 1988. At that time, the Soviet economy had been in trouble, and there were still 3 years from the Soviet Empire.Even if the Soviet Union was not collapsed, and because the giant wheel was such a huge project, the builder would not be completed until the mid -1990s.Ironically, the construction work was carried out in the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine.
But the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the funds for the construction of the "Uliyanovsk" also followed.As Professor James Holmes of the U.S. Naval Military Academy elaborates: "The Soviets are not stupid. They will not splurge for comparison. As a large land country, they have huge resources to provide funds for the Army and the Air Force.The "luxury fleet" project is limited. In short, if you can't afford the existing maritime fleet, where do you get funds to complete your first nuclear power super carrier?You can't afford it "
The article said that to this day, Putin has done a lot of work for the modernization of the Russian armed forces.Although his modernization plan must include the Russian Navy, nuclear -powered aircraft carriers are still not priority.(Compilation/Wang Haiyu)
