Future russian aircraft carriers. #2

Extra replacement Sats can be pre positioned for launch ahead of time, & this was practiced by RF already.
The Su-57 is still in development- it's too early to even dream about it being navalized; I searched & found nothing hinting at it!

Combined with the dramatic collapse of the Russian economy in the wake of Western economic sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the inflexibility of UAC made the Su-57 impossible to realize. No matter how large or populated, a country with GDP comparable to that of Australia cannot afford to play at being a superpower, fight a protracted war in Syria and develop its own stealth fighter. [and having many other priorities in the shipbuilding, produce & operate Storm-size CVNs.]
The last hope for the project was the serious Indian interest in financing the conversion of the Su-57 into a stealth strike fighter in the class of the Su-30MKI. But the management structures Putin imposed undermined that collaboration.
Of course, the Kremlin’s core interest in the Su-57 is scoring big propaganda points by creating a supposed match for Lockheed’s F-22 Raptor. This is something the business-minded Indian air force is not keen to finance. [Besides the Storm CVN]. And that means the Su-57 is going nowhere fast.  https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-su-57-stealth-fighter-122900472.html

Navalizing the Su-57 will be a huge wa$te now as their CVN has a big ? mark over it.
I have my doubts about the Su-34 navalization as well- fully loaded, it's too heavy for anything but CATOBAR; but perhaps its planned smaller single seat variant has a chance in CAWs: https://thaimilitaryandasianregion.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/su-34-fullback/

NK wasn't intimidated by 3 USN CBGs & 1 SSGN off her coast; the era of such "gunboat diplomacy" is over. OTH, most 3rd world countries usually have a few more powerful friends/allies, even if temporary- together they can deter CBGs. Brazilians r now developing SSN & said they don't need any CVs.
The Russian Arctic can be patrolled & defended better by the AF, land based NAF, SSNs, CGNs, armed icebreakers, S-300/400/500s, Naval Infantry, Border Guards/CG ice strengthened Offshore Patrol Boats & UDKs- operating STOBAR/CATOBAR TAKRs & CVNs beyond the Barents Sea isn't practical nor safe due to very low temperatures/visibility & flightdeck icing, to name a few. As noted on the Borey thread, all of their SSBNs don't need to go on patrol- most of the CONUS is in range from their Kola & Kamchatka bases. For added security, they could even build a base on the lake Baikal (the deepest in the world)- a few smaller subs armed with Sineva SLBMs &/ bottom BMs can reach USA from the Northern part of it.

During the winter and spring, the surface freezes for 4–5 months; from early January to May–June (latest in the north), the entire lake surface is covered in ice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Water_temperature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#/media/File:Yeniseirivermap.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Proposed_nuclear_enrichment_plant

The adjacent & connected to it Bratsk reservoir has an area of 5,426-5,470km2 with max. depth of 150m. http://russiangeography.com/West_Siberian_plain/bratsk-reservoir
Plenty of room to hide & no need for TAKRs/CVNs to protect them!
All the "bathtubs" around the RF can already become no-go zone for NATO during a crisis; soon the Zircones will make the 'Mediterranean NATO lake' a distant memory. The same with RF bases in Sudan for the Red Sea. They may also get access to bases in Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia & Vietnam.

Well it seems there will perhaps be helicopter carriers in the near future:

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have agreed to start the construction of domestic helicopter carriers in 2020 at the Northern Shipyard, a military-industrial complex source told TASS.

"The Russian Defense Ministry and the USC have agreed that the Northern Shipyard enterprise will carry out work on the helicopter carriers and the Leader destroyers. It is already conducting comprehensive reconstruction of its productive capacities, including the construction of a workshop to build ships of these classes," the source said.


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Russia to build first helicopter carrier by 2022


"The plant is expected to first build two helicopter carries and then to start constructing the destroyers. R&D work for the helicopter carriers will kick off in 2018, the construction of the lead ship is expected to start in 2020 and in 2024 it will join the fleet. The first and only series helicopter carrier is due to be manufactured in 2022 and become operational in 2026," the source specified.

TASS has no official confirmation of this information.



Another source told TASS earlier that helicopter carriers would be powered by a combined diesel and gas turbine, in which the diesel engine is the main one, and the turbine is needed to accelerate power. The ships will mostly carry Ka-52K helicopters that will be delivered to the armed forces simultaneously with the helicopter carriers. The ships will also service Ka-27s, Ka-29s and Ka-31s.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov earlier told reporters that the first Russian helicopter carrier will be finished roughly by 2022.


More:
http://tass.com/defense/984382

runaway wrote:Well it seems there will perhaps be helicopter carriers in the near future:

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have agreed to start the construction of domestic helicopter carriers in 2020 at the Northern Shipyard, a military-industrial complex source told TASS.

"The Russian Defense Ministry and the USC have agreed that the Northern Shipyard enterprise will carry out work on the helicopter carriers and the Leader destroyers. It is already conducting comprehensive reconstruction of its productive capacities, including the construction of a workshop to build ships of these classes," the source said.

Well I hope the Russian helicarriers will actually have close in weapon systems that can hit things and won't just get re-programed to shoot each other down.... Oh wait you mean helicopter carriers.

But they said that they will be building leader class destroyers time to watch PapaDragon GunshipDemocracy and the rest of the would be VTOL loby panic.

PapaDragon wrote:
So helicopter carriers first, destroyers second. That means that Lider destroyers will not be getting started before 2022 at the absolute earliest and more likely not before 2026. Plenty of time to get some extra Gorshkovs or maybe even Super Gorshkovs into water, to say nothing of submarines, corvettes and missile ships.

And since transport fleet needs some freshening up building helicopters carriers first makes even more sense. I still believe Navy should get a dozen RoRo ships from South Korea in bulk and tweak them for military use (add radars, helipads, CIWS, and Paket-M) Using civilian RoRos have proven to exceptionally efficient during Syrian ops.

The idea with RoRo ships for transport is excellent, but there is no need to buy them or tweak them with weapons. Just call them in when you need them from the merchant companies.
Like the Brittish did in Falklands. If it works fine in Syria ops, then continue by all means.

PapaDragon wrote:

The-thing-next-door wrote:
But they said that they will be building leader class destroyers time to watch PapaDragon GunshipDemocracy and the rest of the would be VTOL loby panic.

 

Oh really? And why would we panic? They are doing exactly the same thing that rest of us believe is smart thing to do.

They said it themselves:

"The plant is expected to first build two helicopter carries and then to start constructing the destroyers. R&D work for the helicopter carriers will kick off in 2018, the construction of the lead ship is expected to start in 2020 and in 2024 it will join the fleet. The first and only series helicopter carrier is due to be manufactured in 2022 and become operational in 2026," the source specified.

So helicopter carriers first, destroyers second. That means that Lider destroyers will not be getting started before 2022 at the absolute earliest and more likely not before 2026. Plenty of time to get some extra Gorshkovs or maybe even Super Gorshkovs into water, to say nothing of submarines, corvettes and missile ships.

And since transport fleet needs some freshening up building helicopters carriers first makes even more sense. I still believe Navy should get a dozen RoRo ships from South Korea in bulk and tweak them for military use (add radars, helipads, CIWS, and Paket-M) Using civilian RoRos have proven to exceptionally efficient during Syrian ops.


What I find interesting is that there is still no news about that Lider destroyer that is already being built in secret somewhere in the Arctic? Surely it cannot be bullshit, after all eehenie has guaranteed  it himself...  

The Lider class requires the S-500 missiles system along with many other sytems to be ready before it can become a reality so development of those will have to complete before the first ship can be built.

A friendly reminder to the would be VTOL lobby they never said that they would be developing VTOL just as never said that the Orlov-Chesmensky was already laid down.

And if you actually read my comments you would know that I believe eehnie is a little over optimistic and I do not believ we will see any large scale vessels comissioned before the mid to late 2020s but objectivity is clearly not on your agenda is it.

The-thing-next-door wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

Peŕrier wrote:....
The USA have not even the slighest idea to get rid of their CVNs.....

Of course they don't just like powers of old had no idea how to get rid of their battleships until they started getting sunk en-masse by cheap aircraft back in WW2.

It's called fighting yesterday's war. Nothing new or unusual.

Now replace battleships with CVN's and aircraft with missiles and you should get up-to-date picture.

Wow you sound just like those people that repeatedly insist the the tank is obsolete and have been insisting since the bloody 1960s yet tanks are still used designed and produced.

Not to mention how Khrushchev even supported development of tank alternatives but to no avail and like I said tanks are still here.

One thing to also note just because the Russian navy can deal with carriers relatively easily does not mean they are obsolete as Russia usually makes the best missiles on the planet while nato countries would have a very hard time trying to put a scratch on a Shtorms paint job as they do not even have any air launched anti ship missiles with a range greater than the 600 km range of the S-500 that the Lider class will carry nor do they have any hypersonic missiles.

Aircraf  carriers have vulnerabilities, but also have some advantages:

1.- As mobile platform always can get just out of the range of the land based missiles of the adversary.
2.- The real range of the air weapons of an aircraft carrier is = range of the aircraft + range of the aircraft carried weapon.
3.- Modern aircraft carriers are multirole. Not just a mobile airfield on the sea. Modern multirole aircraft carriers also carry ship based missiles, even in bigger number than other ships.
4.- Working as defensive weapons can have coverage of land based weapons and aircrafts (strategic bombers), expanding at same time the area of sea denial, thanks to expand the area where weapons of smaller range but bigger use, can be used.

The-thing-next-door wrote:

runaway wrote:Well it seems there will perhaps be helicopter carriers in the near future:

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have agreed to start the construction of domestic helicopter carriers in 2020 at the Northern Shipyard, a military-industrial complex source told TASS.

"The Russian Defense Ministry and the USC have agreed that the Northern Shipyard enterprise will carry out work on the helicopter carriers and the Leader destroyers. It is already conducting comprehensive reconstruction of its productive capacities, including the construction of a workshop to build ships of these classes," the source said.

Well I hope the Russian helicarriers will actually have close in weapon systems that can hit things and won't just get re-programed to shoot each other down.... Oh wait you mean helicopter carriers.

But they said that they will be building leader class destroyers time to watch PapaDragon GunshipDemocracy and the rest of the would be VTOL loby panic.

Papadragon, Seig Soloivov, Militarov, JohninMK and other pro-US commenters are fairly panicking.

They are saying nothing of value. Against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000 they argue that the State Armament Program will not include ships bigger than the Project 22350 (Gorshkov). But then we see news about heavy multirole landing ships, and they welcome the new and try to use it against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000.

They are not able of articulating a coherent message.

eehnie wrote:

The-thing-next-door wrote:

runaway wrote:Well it seems there will perhaps be helicopter carriers in the near future:

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have agreed to start the construction of domestic helicopter carriers in 2020 at the Northern Shipyard, a military-industrial complex source told TASS.

"The Russian Defense Ministry and the USC have agreed that the Northern Shipyard enterprise will carry out work on the helicopter carriers and the Leader destroyers. It is already conducting comprehensive reconstruction of its productive capacities, including the construction of a workshop to build ships of these classes," the source said.

Well I hope the Russian helicarriers will actually have close in weapon systems that can hit things and won't just get re-programed to shoot each other down.... Oh wait you mean helicopter carriers.

But they said that they will be building leader class destroyers time to watch PapaDragon GunshipDemocracy and the rest of the would be VTOL loby panic.

Papadragon, Seig Soloivov, Militarov, JohninMK and other pro-US commenters are fairly panicking.

They are saying nothing of value. Against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000 they argue that the State Armament Program will not include ships bigger than the Project 22350 (Gorshkov). But then we see news about heavy multirole landing ships, and they welcome the new and try to use it against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000.

They are not able of articulating a coherent message.

Agreed they arguements are copletely invalid.

PS you forgot to mention GunshipDemocracy.

I as an officer of the Soviet Interdimentional Command find the level of pro western insubordination on this forum disgusting.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Ah typical type "You say things I don't like and don't agree with therefore you invalid"

clinging to the "Soviet" title are we?.

Just a fool holding onto the past then alright.

Well well well if it isn,t the US oprative in Syria that comment is real cute just because you cannot see something from your distorted and limited perspective does not mean it isn,t there the Soviet Union is at the hight of its power and the only reason you pathetic earthlings still live on is that we have little time for old vendettas at this moment.

Till next time I wsih you poor luck in you doging of Russian missiles and a not so pleasant time in hell.

Didn't they voluntarily cease to exist? (only recorded case in human history of nation deciding to call it quits) lol1

It was more than just a nation actually. It was an union. And it's certainly not the last one to end. Soviet UNION, european UNION, UNITED states of america ... those things that opress their people have no future. Actually it was good that it ended like that and they didn't suffer of a civil war only because their government actually cared about people and were totaly different from Staline and Staline's USSR.

The-thing-next-door wrote:

eehnie wrote:

The-thing-next-door wrote:

runaway wrote:Well it seems there will perhaps be helicopter carriers in the near future:

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have agreed to start the construction of domestic helicopter carriers in 2020 at the Northern Shipyard, a military-industrial complex source told TASS.

"The Russian Defense Ministry and the USC have agreed that the Northern Shipyard enterprise will carry out work on the helicopter carriers and the Leader destroyers. It is already conducting comprehensive reconstruction of its productive capacities, including the construction of a workshop to build ships of these classes," the source said.

Well I hope the Russian helicarriers will actually have close in weapon systems that can hit things and won't just get re-programed to shoot each other down.... Oh wait you mean helicopter carriers.

But they said that they will be building leader class destroyers time to watch PapaDragon GunshipDemocracy and the rest of the would be VTOL loby panic.

Papadragon, Seig Soloivov, Militarov, JohninMK and other pro-US commenters are fairly panicking.

They are saying nothing of value. Against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000 they argue that the State Armament Program will not include ships bigger than the Project 22350 (Gorshkov). But then we see news about heavy multirole landing ships, and they welcome the new and try to use it against the Project 23560 and the Project 23000.

They are not able of articulating a coherent message.

Agreed they arguements are copletely invalid.

PS you forgot to mention GunshipDemocracy.

I as an officer of the Soviet Interdimentional Command find the level of pro western insubordination on this forum disgusting.

The difference between mine, and arguments of others is that i have some beside random links from random places on World Wide Web.

And you cant belive the amount of fucks i dont give what you or eehnie think.

Unfortunately for you the first ship of the Project 23560 is to be laid down under the State Armament Program 2011-2020 and the first unit of the new aircraft carrier (likely of the Project 23000, the alone publicly known at this point), is likely to follow the same path, when the project is approved (before 2020) as said by the Russian Maritime Doctrine of 2015.

The military doctrines of the different branches of the Russian federation are documents of superior cathegory than the State Armament Programs, in fact rule them, and also come from the Kremlin.

You have to prove that the Russian Maritime Doctrine of 2015 has been modified. This is not true. Even it would be ridiculous to change by the begin of 2018 a document signed in 2015 for a timeline that reachs 2050.

PapaDragon wrote:

The-thing-next-door wrote:
A friendly reminder to the would be VTOL lobby they never said that they would be developing VTOL

Nah, they just suffered​ a stroke simultaneously and all said the same thing and everyone agreed because they like wasting time and money on stuff they won't be developing

The-thing-next-door wrote:
just as never said that the Orlov-Chesmensky was already laid down.

I know they didn't, everyone does. Everyone except certain clown we have here. 

The-thing-next-door wrote:
And if you actually read my comments you would know that I believe eehnie is a little over optimistic and I do not believ we will see any large scale vessels comissioned before the mid to late 2020s but objectivity is clearly not on your agenda is it.

Well that's a funny way of saying "full blown retard". 

The-thing-next-door wrote:
I do not believ we will see any large scale vessels comissioned before the mid to late 2020s but objectivity is clearly not on your agenda is it.

As for anything larger than Super Gorshkov we won't be seeing anything before 2030s

And worry not about my objectivity, it pretty solid, I don't fall for bullshit

PapaDragon wrote:

eehnie wrote:
Unfortunately for you the first ship of the Project 23560 is to be laid down under the State Armament Program 2011-2020 and the first unit of the new aircraft carrier (likely of the Project 23000, the alone publicly known at this point), .......

..

My words agree with the source that I posted.

http://russianships.info/eng/warships/project_23560.htm

Time for others to analyze the rest of your words.

https://www.russiadefence.net/t7151-off-topic-bollocs#213362

PapaDragon wrote:

eehnie wrote:
Unfortunately for you the first ship of the Project 23560 is to be laid down under the State Armament Program 2011-2020 and the first unit of the new aircraft carrier (likely of the Project 23000, the alone publicly known at this point), .......

.

Well atleast he does not think that VTOL is a cheap way to have naval aviation like some delutional individuals here.

If a were incharge of the Russian navy and someone wanted to give me free F-35s I would shoot them there is just no excuse to collect impractical and maintenance heavy peices of scrap even if you get them for free.