Aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”
The lack of construction of new aircraft carriers in Russia is due to the fact that this is not necessary, and not because the country is not able to create such ships, said the former First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Igor Kasatonov. So he responded to an article by the American magazine Forbes about the post-Soviet collapse in shipbuilding, according to “Moscow speaking”.
“There will be a task – we will build anything,” said Kasatonov. – While this is not necessary, but the potential in this regard is huge. Let them look at the Zvezda plant in the Far East and clarify the parameters there. In this regard, there is as much space as you like. “
He believes that such statements are more of a political nature than production and economic, while in Russia with shipbuilding “everything is in order.” “The most important thing is that we [everything] is in order with the design thought,” Kasatonov concluded.
Forbes previously wrote that Russian shipyards still have not recovered from the post-Soviet collapse, as a result of which modern Russia is not building large ships, but much smaller frigates and corvettes, as well as submarines. According to military expert Pavel Luzin, with whom the American magazine spoke, the main problem of the Russian shipbuilding industry is the lack of suitable engines, and it is impossible to buy them abroad because of the sanctions.
