The Russian Ministry of Defense is clearly starting to prepare for the construction of promising aircraft carriers, nothing has been announced about the choice of the project yet, but they are already looking at a place to test a new electromagnetic catapult. According to an informed source, a special commission was created in the military department, which should define, where the new product will be tested.
According to available information, the special commission included representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Russian Navy, who in the near future should familiarize themselves with two military facilities and make a choice in favor of one of them. We are talking about NITKA complexes (ground test training complex aviation) in Saki and Yeysk. At one of them, it is planned to test an electromagnetic catapult for a promising aircraft carrier. (aircraft carrier?).
Expected, that in the near future the commission of the Ministry of Defense and the High Command of the Navy will make a choice, on which of the two ground-based aviation test training complexes in Russia in Saki and Yeysk will tests of an electromagnetic catapult for promising Russian aircraft carriers be carried out- quotes TASS source words.
Both complexes were previously visited by Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov, After that, it was decided to create a commission.
Talks and disputes about the need to build aircraft carriers for the Russian fleet have been going on for quite a long time., several projects as easy, and heavy nuclear, presented by Nevskoe Design Bureau and Krylovsky Research Center, but still no solution. The truth is there are rumors, that the laying of aircraft carriers is provided for by the new state defense order program after 2027 of the year. The information that has emerged about plans to test an electromagnetic catapult for a promising aircraft carrier inspires hope in those, who is waiting for their bookmarks. In the meantime, the only aircraft-carrying cruiser remains in the Navy “Admiral Kuznetsov”, still under renovation.
