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Anti-aircraft protection
S-500 can be installed on new Russian aircraft carrier
José PEDRO M Ramos
7/20/2020
The ship Shtorm, the result of the 23000E project, could be equipped with the brand new Russian anti-aircraft protection system S-500, say sources from that country. It is the marriage of two major technologies.
The giant ship will have some different concepts from American ships, such as ramp takeoff. But it will also have some similarities with the most modern American carriers, for example, electromagnetic catapults, which tend to replace those powered by steam systems.
In the construction of large ships, mainly aircraft carriers, Russia is far behind the United States, but the new ship should reduce this big gap a little. It will be a spacecraft of about 90 thousand tons, more than 330 meters long and will be powered by a nuclear propeller with up to four propellers.
If in the naval area Russia is decades away from the United States, in the aerospace area competition is closer and in some fields Russia has an advantage. For example in the area of "u200b"u200bmissiles and anti-aircraft protection systems, nothing in the world seems to compare to the S-400 and S-500 systems. The latter system, made for the protection of territories, has recently been revealed that it can also be used in ships, should be installed on the future military ship.
With this, the great Asian nation had a better capacity to respond to its rival in the Americas. There will remain the "small problem" that the Americans have 11 ships and the Russians will have only one (considering ships of this size, as there is also the much smaller and more archaic Admiral Kusnetsov).
It is worth mentioning that, if these plans are implemented, the country of Putin will have one of the largest and most modern ships, with one of the best in the world - if the naval version of the SU-57 is realized - and one of the best defense systems. aerial.
A fearsome weapon, no doubt. But, as we said above, nothing can compare with the power of the US Navy that has been investing like no other in the construction of a unique power projection system.
Against Russia weighs the fact that the country does not have shipbuilding facilities capable of accommodating such a large ship nor its own experience to do so, since its experience from the Soviet era may have been lost when Ukraine became a rival to the Federation.
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