Against the background of active construction of aircraft carrier fleet in China, attempts to expand capacity-carrier in India, in the background ready to adopt the UDC-Navy aircraft carrier in Turkey, again becomes relevant the question of the Russian aircraft carrier component prospects. In this regard, experts generally divided into two groups, one of which is said, that the Russian aircraft carriers are not needed, in another - that no aircraft carriers, Russia risks losing its status as a truly powerful ocean power.
More acute question in connection with the, that at this point in the credit Russian Navy – only aircraft carrier, but he, It is no alternative, is still under repair.
The situation for the "Military Review" commented a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian organization "Officers of Russia", Vice-President of the Society of Russian-Cuban friendship, Major General retired Michael Makaruk.
According to General Makaruka, carrier-based component of today, certainly, It continues to play a vital role. This component allows you to defend their interests virtually anywhere in the world's oceans. But there is an important nuance: today to defend their interests in any point of the oceans does not necessarily have extensive carrier fleet.
Michael Makaruk:
Yes, carrier fleet is important, but let us not forget, that today we have the trumps: modern precision weapons, latest submarines and means of destruction, hypersonic missiles. At this stage, the virtual absence of means of delivery of sea air in a variety of important areas is compensated by modern weapons otherwise - those, which I said. So many of these arms can be placed, of course, and on warships. But the development of an aircraft carrier fleet in Russia yet has not been canceled. It will largely depend on the order, how effective and timely manner, we will be able to carry out a complete redesign of our missile arms, submarines, other types of percussion tools. A “Admiral Kuznetsov” in any case arise in operation and will solve problems.
