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On the only Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” new incident, USC head Alexei Rakhmanov reports a fire, really small. The fire is now extinguished.
cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”, located in the dry dock of the 35th shipyard in Murmansk, there was a small fire, as stated, during renovation work. The fire was quickly extinguished, the ship's fire systems worked properly. There is no information about calling fire brigades.. As Rakhmanov pointed out, no damage was done to the ship, nobody asked for medical help.
There is a small kurtosis during the repair work (…) No damage or casualties- RIA Novosti quotes the words of the head of USC.
Recall, that there was already one fire on the cruiser, affecting the delivery time of the ship. 12 December 2019 of the year undergoing repair and modernization of TAVKR “Admiral Kuznetsov” a fire broke out, whose area has reached 500 quarter. m. It took nearly a day to put out the fire.. The preliminary cause – sparks from welding in diesel fuel. Damaged during the fire 14 human, two soldiers were killed.
Currently “Admiral Kuznetsov” located in the dry dock of the 35th shipyard in Murmansk, ship docking completed, the operation began to withdraw the cruiser from the dock. According to available information, it will take at least a month, then “Kuznetsova” put back to the outfitting wall and continue the repair. As they say in the USC, everything is on schedule.
Repair and modernization of TAVKR “Admiral Kuznetsov” started in 2017 year. It was originally planned, that the cruiser will be delivered to the customer in 2020 year, but a series of accidents on the ship led to, that the timing of the return of TAVKR began to shift to the right. According to the latest data , the ship will be ready for handover to the fleet in the first quarter 2024 of the year.
