In message , dott.Piergiorgio
writes
Let's return to the topic. I known that you known well about soviet
Navy, in your opinion, the (relatively) little knowledge in CV
construction accrued by the soviet, through Moskvas, Kievs and
Kutnetzovs is lost in the last 15 or so years or not ? IMHO this is the
key issue, after all the Kutnetzov seems to be active in the Russian
Navy, so, it's feasible that they can design & engineer starting from
the existing prototype (Kutnetzov) ?

Given the condition of the Kuznetsov when she deployed in 1996, she may
not be a model to emulate. The difficulty the Russians seem to have is
that their first big-deck carrier is not very successful, has been laid
up for much of her life, and has been unable to generate much by way of
carrier-capable aircrew or experience in carrier ops. (The few who did
fly from her were talented: I've seen some excellent pictures of
fast-and-low Flanker flybys taken from HMS Sheffield, who was marking
her, but there were very few of them).

--
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


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