Cruisers, destroyers, upgraded Kirovs.... are you serious?
And where would these cruisers and destroyers come from?
Frigate construction has hit the wall, building a single corvette takes a decade and even missiles ship production is ending due to lack of engines.
There wont be an issue with new Destroyers or cruisers because they will have NPPs they don't have issues with, so production times should be pretty normal.
Kirov upgrade has been delayed from 2018 to 2022 and counting.
Still will be back in service a decade before any CVN could hit the water for fitting out... they really have not decided what sort of upgrade they want to spend money on...
Only thing they can build is Offshore Patrol Vessel and they even stopped ordering those for some reason (probably no engines same as every other one). Not that they could be used to escort carrier anyway...
Shit, for all we know they might decide that the future of the Russian navy is cargo ships loaded with UKSK launch bins and Redut launchers for thousands of missiles... have ten of them operating around the carrier which has all the sensors to detect targets and threats and operates at sea with 6 huge cargo ships operating around them like a meat shield with high automation and a skeleton crew and lots of ready to fire missiles replacing expensive and complicated Destroyers and cruisers... one cargo arsenal ship could launch 1,000 Zircons and still have 1,000 S-400 missiles to defend itself with... another cargo vessel might have anti sub missiles including a vertical launch Paket anti torpedo ballistic missile, plus a few hundred new 4,000km range Iskander variants for attacking enemy carriers...
192 naval Tor missiles with 4 PESA engagement radars each able to guide 8 missiles to attack 4 simultaneous targets up to Mach2 in 60deg arc, missile launches every 3s.
The current model can fit twice the number of missiles in the same space and range extended by about 30%...
One squadron of fighter jets would rip this single unprotected bathtub to pieces. Why do you thing carriers have escorts (which will be firing on bathtub along with airplanes so double problem)
With what?
Harpoon? Even if each aircraft in your attacking squadron could carry and fire 10 Harpoons each, a squadron of four aircraft carrying 40 Harpoons would have little chance of penetrating the defences of the Kuznetsov in its current form let alone any upgrade... the TOR system alone could engage 16 missiles at 12km range and in the time it would take the Harpoons would take to cover 12 kms it could probably deal with at least 64 attacking missiles.... Kashtan would also take them out fairly easily... both systems are design specifically for intercepting cruise missile type weapons...
an who is going to buy such CV ? China and India are building their own, other contenders? Belorussia?
Nobody obviously... they are just blowing smoke up your ass...
MiG-31 over ocean? or as deck fighter on Krylov super carrier?
For cruise missile attack threats the Aerospace defence forces of Russia use a combination of surface located SAM sites near target areas, and airborne interceptors in the form of the MiG-31... now why do they think airborne interceptors are necessary when they have so many powerful ground based SAMs... why even bother with airborne radar when their ground based radar are enormous and so capable?
Talk of building Aircraft carriers for the Russian navy is all exciting and nice but I doubt these ships will be built in 20 or 30 years from now, Gorskhov continues to suffer from setbacks despite decades of development, if Russia is having trouble fielding ships in 5,000 tons, what more ships over 70,000. If Russia eventually improves its shipbuilding capacity, it will probably happen in 20-30 years time, and that is a pretty far away time in the future.
We keep hearing of the terrible state the Russian ship building industry is in, yet the Mistral portions they had to build were built on time and to spec... obviously they didn't have to fit them with engines... but big ships use nuclear propulsion which the Russians can build already...
More importantly how many western corvettes have 2,500km range land attack cruise missile launchers that can also currently launch supersonic anti ship missiles like Onyx?
People complaining they have no support vessels... as mentioned even if they lay down the keel in 2022 it wont be 2032 before the thing hits the water... which is plenty of time to build 20 Frigates and 10 Destroyers once the engine problems are solved... the Frigates will need conventional engines but the Destroyers can use nukes...
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