The Russian carrier Kuznetsov is burning....

[Skroe]

Seriously, why doesn't Russia scrap this thing before it kills some more people. Currently 12 injured, 3 dead, 1 missing and fire is spreading, covering 600 square meters of the ship. A lot of work for a militarily useless showpiece that needs an escort tug.




(from Space)




https://twitter.com/i/status/1205070211352805376

Reminder, that in October 2018, the Carrier was seriously damaged when a the massive drydock it was in (the largest in Russia) sank and a crane fell into its deck.

[Valerean]

Not gonna lie, from the second and third pictures I thought she was just underway...

[Bakis]

To be fair US naval vessals though smaller tend to collide with whatever. Then again they are 20 times more in numbers.

Maybe the Soviet era carrier had some crew member smoking too cloase to the coal pile that power the ship and it created a big ass bonfire?

[Voidwielder]

Got to keep pretending that they are a major world power. The dreams of being a naval power never died with Gorshkov.

[draynay]

That's some quality "goddamn steam".

[StillMcfuu]

There are piles of snow on this poor girls deck, they need to sell this ship to a navy that will appreciate it, or scrap it already.

[ParanoiD84]

lol that's some quality stuff right there.

[Dadwen]

Didn't the Chinese use this (sister ship Liaoning) as a bases for the start of their aircraft carrier designs?

[Yadryonych]

Didn't the Chinese use this (sister ship Liaoning) as a bases for the start of their aircraft carrier designs?

They actually have complete design and all the blueprints

[Skroe]

Didn't the Chinese use this (sister ship Liaoning) as a bases for the start of their aircraft carrier designs?

The Chinese bought the ex-Varyag (now named) Liaoning and revamped her as their first carrier. One of the major changes they made (that is currently being done to the Kuznetsov) is the removal of missile canisters on the deck, of which this class has 12 Vertical launch system cells for Granit missiles.



Removing the VLS cells, along with all associated hardware entails substantial changes below deck, but also opens up all that space for a larger hangar (which means it can carry more missiles). It's presence on the Kuznetsov is indicative of how the Soviets (now the Russians) utilize their crriers differently than the US with its supercarriers. It's a different concept really.

But the Chinese intend to builds US-style supercarriers (in fact, they are underway building one now, the Type 002). They first needed to learn how to have, handle and manage a carrier. So they bought the Liaoning and massively revamped it. But it's really just a training ship and a show-of-force ship. This led to them building the Type 001A from scratch, which is a modified Liaoning design. They look similar but the Type-001A has a larger flight deck, larger hanger, more storage space and redesigned island. But it's still heavily derived from the Liaoning.

To put it simply, with the Liaoning, China learned how to own a carrier. With the Liaoning-derived Type-001A, they learned how to build a carrier. Both will likely see limited active duty service.

All of this is part of their plan to build the Type-002, which will have an Electro Magnetic Aircraft Launch system like the USS Gerald R Ford, rather than a ski-jump, and be comparable (but smaller) to modern US Supercarriers. It will have similar dimensions to a Nimitz or Ford class, but have a lesser the displacement.

From the Center from Strategic International Studies (modern carriers are build modularly then lifted into place).

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It's worth stating though it's taken China nearly 25 ears to get to that point. The US has been building big deck carriers non-stop since the 1950s and that has lead to a rather quick turnaround for them. The US work force can turn them around in about 4 years. The speed is mostly a factor of money spent employing workers and number of shifts per day.

The CVN-79 USS John F Kennedy
July 2017



December 7th 2019


(note: it still needs to be outfitted with all its radars, computers, weapons, catapults, wires and so forth, which will take another couple of years, largely due to funding limits)

[Dadwen]

The Chinese bought the ex-Varyag (now named) Liaoning and revamped her as their first carrier. One of the major changes they made (that is currently being done to the Kuznetsov) is the removal of missile canisters on the deck, of which this class has 12 Vertical launch system cells for Granit missiles.



Removing the VLS cells, along with all associated hardware entails substantial changes below deck, but also opens up all that space for a larger hangar (which means it can carry more missiles). It's presence on the Kuznetsov is indicative of how the Soviets (now the Russians) utilize their crriers differently than the US with its supercarriers. It's a different concept really.

But the Chinese intend to builds US-style supercarriers (in fact, they are underway building one now, the Type 002). They first needed to learn how to have, handle and manage a carrier. So they bought the Liaoning and massively revamped it. But it's really just a training ship and a show-of-force ship. This led to them building the Type 001A from scratch, which is a modified Liaoning design. They look similar but the Type-001A has a larger flight deck, larger hanger, more storage space and redesigned island. But it's still heavily derived from the Liaoning.

To put it simply, with the Liaoning, China learned how to own a carrier. With the Liaoning-derived Type-001A, they learned how to build a carrier. Both will likely see limited active duty service.

All of this is part of their plan to build the Type-002, which will have an Electro Magnetic Aircraft Launch system like the USS Gerald R Ford, rather than a ski-jump, and be comparable (but smaller) to modern US Supercarriers. It will have similar dimensions to a Nimitz or Ford class, but have a lesser the displacement.

From the Center from Strategic International Studies (modern carriers are build modularly then lifted into place).

.


It's worth stating though it's taken China nearly 25 ears to get to that point. The US has been building big deck carriers non-stop since the 1950s and that has lead to a rather quick turnaround for them. The US work force can turn them around in about 4 years. The speed is mostly a factor of money spent employing workers and number of shifts per day.

The CVN-79 USS John F Kennedy
July 2017



December 7th 2019


(note: it still needs to be outfitted with all its radars, computers, weapons, catapults, wires and so forth, which will take another couple of years, largely due to funding limits)

It may be the SCI-Fi Geek in me or WWII History Geek (CV-6) but I'm looking forward to CVN-80.

[Kellhound]

I love to see Russia waste money on that hunk of scrap metal. He is an albatross....

[Guy4123]

Again? They're gonna make more ghost ship stories about this thing than the flying dutchman in the future.

[Dadwen]

Again? They're gonna make more ghost ship stories about this thing than the flying dutchman in the future.

it will be the only stories as far as I know with a ghost ship being towed around by a ghost tug boat...

[Grimbold21]

Surprised not seeing Kangodo here saying this is the West's work

[Kraenen]

Surprised not seeing Kangodo here saying this is the West's work

I'm sure it was just made up/overexaggerated/look over there something else is terrible don't look at this

[Polyxo]

They should just zombify Dennis Hopper and make him the captain. The ramp will now be for jet ski attacks.

[Deja Thoris]

Pfft, thats not a fire, they are just testing a smoke dispersion system to obscure their mega fleets from prying eyes. Typical capitalist pigdog propaganda!

[breadisfunny]

Pfft, thats not a fire, they are just testing a smoke dispersion system to obscure their mega fleets from prying eyes. Typical capitalist pigdog propaganda!

nah they are just having a russian bbq.

[announced]

Surprised not seeing Kangodo here saying this is the West's work

It totally was the CIA, they managed to build a microwave that disrupts the signals in Russian ships and causes them to go up in smoke.