Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has faced numerous technical issues and maintenance problems since its ...

Summary and Key Points: The Russian Navy is considering developing a new aircraft carrier despite ongoing struggles with the refit of its sole flattop, Admiral Kuznetsov. -Commander-in-Chief ...

MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russia’s Navy will receive a new promising aircraft carrier, Navy Commander Viktor Chirkov told reporters on Monday. Presently, the Russian Navy has only one aircraft ...

The trilateral Freedom Edge exercise comes after North Korea launched a nuclear-capable missile and sent troops to Russia.

The Kirov-class battlecruisers, once envisioned as the crown jewels of Russian naval might, face obsolescence in today’s ...

did not want aircraft carriers, preferring to put his faith in battleships and cruisers. Soviet industry gave Stalin cover, explaining they did not yet have the capacity to build new kinds of ships.

Though the Russian Navy is trying to transform Admiral Kuznetsov into a strike-based platform like its NATO rivals, they have not showed any real signs of building new aircraft carriers because of ...

TASS/. Russia’s Krylov State Scientific Center will display at the Army-2019 military and technical forum a principally new concept of an aircraft carrier that will outshine the UK’s flattop ...

Russia has dismissed the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier as "just a convenient, large maritime target". Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov was hitting back at the UK for ...

Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire on Thursday during maintenance work in Russia's Arctic port in Murmansk By Posted on Dec 12, 2019 1:54 PM EST At least one ...

Russia will deploy its only heavy aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov ... to the Mediterranean earlier this year as part of a new permanent task force Russia established in the region largely ...