The technical design of the promising Russian aircraft carrier will be ready by the end of 2010, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, told RIA Novosti.
"The topic of building a promising aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy has not gone anywhere, the instructions of the country's leadership remain. The technical design of the ship will be ready by the end of this year," Vysotsky said.
He said that the project is being developed by several organizations, including the Northern Design Bureau (PKB), Nevskoe PKB.
According to the commander-in-chief, it is too early to talk about the appearance of the aircraft carrier. "Even with regard to displacement. A number of requirements have been set before the designers. If they can put everything in a matchbox, then please. If it turns out the same as that of the Americans (more than 100 thousand tons - ed.), Then let them justify," Vysotsky said …
Among the requirements for a promising aircraft carrier, the commander-in-chief called the provision of air defense of heterogeneous and even interspecific groups in one operational zone outside the reach of coastal air defense assets with a probability of at least 0.8 and to maintain the operational regime in peacetime and to gain air supremacy in wartime in this area.
Vysotsky is confident that the Russian fleet needs carrier formations. "If, for example, in the North we do not have an aircraft carrier, then my combat stability of the missile submarine cruisers of the Northern Fleet in those areas will be reduced to zero already on the second day, because the main enemy of boats is aviation," Vysotsky said.
The commander-in-chief once again stressed that a special target state program should be developed for the construction of an aircraft carrier. "I am deeply convinced that the construction of the aircraft carrier complex should be carried out outside the state defense order. There should be a separate state program, but it does not exist yet. There are only approaches," the commander-in-chief said.
Earlier, a number of naval experts told RIA Novosti that in any case, the future aircraft carrier will be nuclear, with a displacement of 50-60 thousand tons.
