The operation to withdraw a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser from the dry dock of the 35th shipyard “Admiral Kuznetsov” continues, the end of the process is planned for the middle of this month. This was announced by a source in the Russian defense industry..
The end of the operation to withdraw the last docked cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” planned 16-17 February. These days, the ship will finally be taken out of the dock and sent to the outfitting wall to continue work.. Withdrawal operation started 20 December, the process was planned to be completed within a month, but the dates have shifted to the right. Reasons for this, most likely, of a technical nature and related to the dock itself. The thing is, that the cruiser was docked, not equipped with a batoport (dock closing device) and had to build a temporary jumper. Now it needs to be removed, to release the cruiser from the dock. Besides, work is affected by the weather.
The aircraft carrier will be taken out of the dry dock of the 35th shipyard 16-17 February- quotes TASS source words.
Transfer of the ship to the combat fleet is planned for the first quarter 2024 of the year, unless something happens again. “Admiral Kuznetsov” already called “the most unfortunate ship” after a series of incidents on board. Delivered for overhaul with modernization in 2018 year, he was supposed to return to service in three or four years, but after the start of work, new defects were discovered, which led to repeated postponements of the ship's return to combat. To this must be added the fire on board the cruiser and the sunken floating dock, which was supposed to provide docking work on the ship.
As they say in the USC, work on the cruiser is on schedule and without disruption. Let's hope, that the named deadlines will be met and the ship will return to service at the beginning of next year.
