Russia’s only aircraft carrier has remained relegated to dry dock duty for the better part of the last 10 years.

Summary and Key Points: Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has become a symbol of the nation's struggling naval ambitions. Initially commissioned in 1991, this "heavy aircraft ...

Since launching the Kiev, Russia produced a relatively small fleet of Kiev, Moskva, Ulyanovsk, and Admiral Kuznetsov-class carriers, spanning only seven traditional aircraft carriers. While it ...

Russia's only aircraft carrier has been under repair for almost 10 years.

Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov, could be headed to the scrap heap if a new drydock isn’t found. The old drydock, the only one in western ...

6 The Admiral Kuznetsov is extremely heavily armed for an aircraft carrier. Along with various heavy guns and antisubmarine missiles, it is equipped with 12 launchers capable of firing nuclear ...

Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, was originally designed to deploy a “missile farm” that was more powerful than the airplanes it launched from its deck. The downsides ...

Unlike America's newest class of carrier, the Gerald R. Ford class, which supports up to 90 aircraft, the Admiral Kuznetsov only houses up to 24 fighter jets and 12 helicopters. The one ...

The Admiral Kuznetsov could have had a catapult launch ... Back in Soviet times, a special onshore training center imitating an aircraft carrier's springboard was built in Crimea for training ...

The Problem: Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has become notorious for its litany of problems, from fires and falling cranes to shoddy construction and emissions of thick black ...

Everything old is new again — like a fire aboard Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. Russian state news agency TASS reported that a fire had broken out on the Admiral ...

(This nation has the largest navy in the world.) The Cold War era saw the advent of the Kiev-class aircraft carriers and later the Kuznetsov-class, which were primarily designed for anti-submarine ...