Dave Majumdar
Security,
Maybe–and both might be blasts from the past.
Russia is examining the possibility of building a new aircraft carrier along with a new short takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) fighter toward the end of its 2018-2025 state armament program.
The new vessel—which would be a “heavy aircraft carrying cruiser”—would be a revival of an old Soviet concept that was embodied in the massive Project 1143 Gyrfalcon—or Kiev-class—vessels. Like the Kiev-class of old, the new ships would carry STOVL aircraft similar in concept to the Yakovlev Yak-41 (sometime called the Yak-141) Freestyle supersonic vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) multirole fighter that was cancelled in …read more
Source: The National Interest
