So theres a great debate on the ol military forums right now. The linked article below states that russia is apparently scrapping its only aircraft carrier, and its doing this because its not vital to its current military doctrine, and therefore Russia has no need for her.
One side says that russia is too poor/incompetent to maintain the carrier, and the other side says that floating boomer mobiles are a relic of the past that are too easily targeted by the age of drone warfare.
Adm. Sergei Avakyants, the former commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, told Izvestia that the Russian Navy “does not need aircraft carriers in their classic form in the long term.” Describing aircraft carriers as “a thing of the past,” Avakyants said that they “can be destroyed in a few minutes by modern weapons.”
“It is a very expensive and ineffective naval weapon,” Avakyants continued. “The future belongs to carriers of robotic systems and unmanned aircraft. And if a decision is made not to continue the repairs, the only thing left to do is to take the Admiral Kuznetsov, cut it up for metal, and dispose of it.”
https://www.twz.com/air/russia-may-finally-abandon-its-cursed-aircraft-carrierThis post was edited by zorzin on Jul 12 2025 03:22pm