Admiral
Kuznetsov
is expected to return to sea this year.
The only aircraft carrier in the Russian fleet, which entered service in the 1990s, should soon emerge from the Murmansk shipyards.
In which state?
The work lasted six years since the last deployment of the vessel off the coast of Syria from where it had carried out air raids for the benefit of the Damascus regime.
It had made a poor impression and the British Defense Minister had denigrated a “
ship of shame
” as it passed off the English coast, under surveillance by the Royal Navy.
“
Russian combat boats do not need escorts
,” Moscow replied, gritting its teeth.
Since then, the Russian fleet has not shone.
This fall, the return of the Krasnodar
submarine
to its home port was followed by all European navies and raised many questions about the state of exhaustion of the Russian navy.
In the Black Sea, it was defeated by Ukraine, even if it no longer…
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