Fair enough - I haven't been keeping up with Russian defence news for the past couple years. Stumbled onto the article while reading a different one.
Although these are just concepts, the stealthy design is really nice.
So it looks like it will be CATOBAR but for some reason they haven't gone with an angled flight deck for recovery. That will slow down their cycle rate somewhat. But it's very early days so we'll just have to wait and see what final design eventuates.
Maybe but Northern and Pacific Fleets would certainly utilise carriers. The Northern fleet could always cycle a CBG though the Mediterranean to Tarsus in Syria. Plus they will eventually be able to sail one across the top of Russia from Murmansk to Vladivostok, and across the top of Canada and Alaska year round.
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That is true, but with Putin you don't know. He has that macho image thing and short mans syndrome.
Technically they offer sea control. However in some cases yes they can be seen as a symbol of the aforementioned short mans syndrome.
These are not corvettes, at least in the multi-role sense. These are all small missile ships. Russia does have corvettes, namely the project 20380/20385 series, and their production is only picking up.
With nearly a dozen carrier battle groups, you can control seas, project power, etc. With one or two, it's not as much that you can control. For Russians in particular, with their main idea of carrier aircraft as anti-air defense (PVO) beyond the range of their navalized S-300s and S-400s, the safest bet would be to develop STOVL aircraft for use off of their helicopter carriers that are supposedly under construction.Are you for real?
IMO LHD are more than sufficient for Russian needs. Their main ship and land attack vessels remain nuclear SSGN and Yasen has no parallel in the world. Carriers are limited in the way they cannot take off strategic bombers, large AWACs, large aerial tankers, large ASW planes, are limited to fighter jets. LHD are far better at supporting amphibious landings.
This would be terrible. Smaller STOVL carriers have more restrictions in terms of what weather they can operate in. The aircraft they fly also tend to be less capable (unless you count the F-35), and Russia would have to develop a STOVL 5th gen from scratch. If Russia goes the carrier route, in my opinion they should go for a large nuclear powered carrier with eventual navalized Su-57s. Half-measures are not the way to go, and Russia can't afford their own F-35 equivalent. The best we would likely see in a near-future Russian STOVL would be a reborn Yak-141 with new avionics and an upgraded engine, and that's just too little too late.
Yes, no parallel in the world, but with torpedoes that belong in a museum. And just what is the situation with the anti-torpedo system for the 885Ms? I suspect that for all their advantages the Yasen class will be in serious trouble when going up against either US/Wester ASW aircraft that have gotten very very good, or against western subs due to ridiculously inferior torpedoes. None of this is to say that Russia should stop building the type, or that they're useless. They're very useful, it's just not a good idea for the VMF to put all their eggs in the Yasen basket. Russia should reduce the side of the SSGN fleet to 12-16 vessels instead of the current 22, and focus on better maintenance turnaround times. The spare funds should be funneled towards potential large surface combatants.
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Protecting Crimea from Ukraine can currently be accomplished by the Coast Guard... As for Japan and the Kurils, this is where a Russian CVBG in the north Pacific would suddenly matter a whole lot. It's one thing to plan an amphibious operation against the Kurils where your biggest threat is some aging Soviet destroyers, a handful of subs, and a few new frigates/corvettes. It's another when there's a Russian CVBG out at sea that could strike at any time. At the very least considerable resources would have to be devoted to tracking it and being ready to counter it. At worst it could make the entire operation unworkable. This is exactly what I meant when I was talking about a headache for anyone planning against the VMF.Russian navy's main purpose for the foreseeable future is guarding Crimea from Ukraine and guarding Southern Kurils from Japan. Aircraft carriers are not priority considering their proximity to Russian mainland. What they need are more hard hitting modern surface combatants such as Gremyashchiy corvettes and Gorshkov frigates, and of course modern large ASW planes based on Tu-214.
Gremyashchiy-class corvette - Wikipedia
Project 22350 frigate - Wikipedia
Tu-204 passenger plane converted in antisubmarine aircraft for Russian Navy
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A Japanese invasion of Southern Kurils will likely go the way of Falklands war in which Japan quickly and easily takes control of Iturup and Kunashir but it's the subsequent Russian reinforcement that will be the main part of the battle. Given the proximity of Southern Kurils to Russian mainland, in contrast to the distance of Falklands to British mainland, Tu-22M3M anti ship bombers would be able to strike the Japanese fleet at Southern Kurils from the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport which is about a thousand km from the Southern Kurils. Japan will then vacate the Southern Kurils the way Argentina vacated Falklands after losing some destroyers.
Agree, a CVN makes more sense. STOBAR or CATOBAR, I imagine the Su-57 might require a catapult for take off. You mentioned 3 carriers which would be ideal but cost wise, probably unrealistic.
I think it's quite realistic, but it requires making some