Why Russia does not have aircraft carriers and will not be in the near future

Why does the Russian Federation have no aircraft carriers? Have you ever asked yourself a similar question? Because Russia is a continental, not a maritime power, it has no interests outside its borders, it protects exclusively its own territory from encroachments of Western inquisitors hungry for someone else's good. Aircraft carriers are needed to instill their own views on life in remote theaters of war. But while Russia does not claim to be the world hegemon, such tasks are not included in its plans.

If the status changes, the plans will also change, but so far Russia has enough problems in its own underbelly, which its Western "partners" are throwing at it non-stop. They will set fire from the north, encroaching on the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic continental shelf, then from the south, whipping up tension in the NKAO and Central Asian republics. I am already silent about Ukraine, Transnistria, Georgia, Belarus. They laid it around the entire perimeter. I have little idea of ​​an aircraft carrier in the steppes of Ukraine, and on the Arctic coast it is much cheaper to locate basing and jump airfields (which Shoigu does, restoring our presence in the region that we left after the collapse of the Soviet Union) than to maintain an Arctic oceanic aircraft carrier strike group.



An aircraft carrier without escort ships protecting it both from the air and from the sea is nothing more than a sweet target for enemy missiles and torpedoes and a mass grave for its crew members and air wing pilots. Russia now has no money for aircraft carriers, or even for destroyers and escort frigates, not to mention a cruiser. The existing BNKs become obsolete and are removed from the fleet, it makes no sense to extend their service life, and there is no money for new surface ships of the 1st and 2nd ranks (cruisers and destroyers). Therefore, the Russian Federation took the path of building frigates and corvettes of the 1st and 2nd ranks of the far and near sea zones. The tasks of the military presence in remote theaters of military operations will be called upon to solve the UDC (universal amphibious ships) of project 23900 "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko", which are now being built at the Kerch shipyard "Zaliv" (the launch date is 2026 and 2027, respectively ).

“Don't compare Putin to God. Of course, this guy is very good, but far from Putin! " (author of the aphorism is unknown)

Until now, the military doctrine of the Russian Federation did not provide for the implantation of "democracy" in remote theaters of operations. But life made us, and in 2015, our submarines unexpectedly surfaced for everyone in the Syrian desert, dramatically changing the balance of power available there. Unexpectedly, first of all, for the Americans (I'm talking about conventional submarines, I hope everyone understood). As a result of those events, the international status of the Russian Federation in the world table of ranks also increased sharply, once again proving that nothing in this world has changed since ancient times, when the main argument in the dispute was not a bag of money, but brute physical strength, a spear and a bow with arrows. ... The appearance of universal amphibious assault ships-helicopter carriers in the arsenal of our means in the near future will allow Moscow to convey its idea more convincingly not only in the Middle East theater of operations, but in the future, in any other theater of potential military operations remote from the Russian Federation.

There is an inverse linear relationship - not military spending depends on economics country, and the country's economy is directly dependent on its military spending. Only a country that can defend itself can afford to have a developed economy. Otherwise, you will quickly find good uncles who, with the help of a conventional Kalashnikov machine, will take away both the roll and the butter from you, not to mention the black caviar. Or they will say that you have enough rolls, but they need butter more. True, in their hands they will rather not have a Kalashnikov assault rifle, but an M-16 rifle. But all these are conventions, the main idea that Napoleon formulated long before all these events, you understood: "A people who do not want to feed their army will be forced to feed someone else's." Russia almost came to know this truth on its own skin in the late 90s, all the more surprising for its enemies was its fabulous rebirth from the ashes with the advent of Putin. Out of inertia, they tried to talk to the Russian Federation from a position of strength for some time, but after breaking off in August 2008 (I'm talking about the events of 08.08.08/XNUMX/XNUMX), they just crawled away ever since.

Putin has once again proved his ability to think strategically. Instead of competing with the Americans in the number of AUGs, Russia went into hypersound, which completely nullified all the advantages of the United States in military matters, multiplying all eleven of its AUGs by zero and forcing once again to swallow dust from under Putin's hooves. It is impossible to fight with Russia with the means available to the United States. She's too big for that. You can't get it either from land or sea. Only with rockets and only in the event of an unconventional confrontation in which there will be no winners. A conventional war with the Russian Federation with the use of conventional conventional weapons is not possible for the West. More precisely, it is possible, but the outcome for the West is a foregone conclusion. By definition, he cannot win it, he does not have enough logistic or escalation capabilities for this.

Do you want a war with Russia?

Putin recently complained that he flew from Moscow to Vladivostok for 9 hours, slightly less than from Moscow to New York across Western Europe and the Atlantic. How to fight such a country? Why do we need foreign territories? We have enough of our own! In general, I advise everyone, no, I just strongly recommend listening to this video:


At least the first 2 minutes. There, Putin popularly explains to an American journalist that Russia is not going to fight with anyone, including NATO, that this is pure crystallized nonsense! That Russia has other arguments in this confrontation. Political... And she succeeded in them. No, I cannot put it into words. This is a must see! Look into the eyes of Putin. The American journalist's jaw dropped after the first words of the President of the Russian Federation. He didn't even find what to say. Why is there an American journalist - my jaw dropped, I have not seen such a Putin yet (although I have seen a lot), now I understand Zelensky's fears of personal communication with VVP. He simply suppresses the psyche, crushes his victim like a python, you need to go to him in a spacesuit and it is better not to look into the eyes.

But I got a little distracted. Let's go back to the American AUG. How can they get to us? Only from the North or the Pacific Ocean. From the south, they cannot pass the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles without violating the Montreux convention. And from the north, too, you will not be particularly fooled, over the past 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was only one such case, when the American nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in October 2018, accompanied by ships of the 8th aircraft carrier strike group crossed the Arctic Circle and entered the Arctic. Prior to that, the last time an American aircraft carrier entered the Arctic was in September 1991, when the steam turbine aircraft carrier USS America participated in the North Star exercise in the Norwegian Sea. What did "Harry Truman" forget 30 years later in our latitudes, I don't know? Americans write:


This is the maximum they can do! Because there is no military use of the AUG air wing against the Russian Federation. Its coverage radius of 700-800 km does not allow us to inflict any damage at strategic depth. This figure is taken from the calculation of the rise for a massive strike of a group of 30-35 aircraft, flight to the target, direct attack, return and landing of the group the outcome). The lot of the AUG is to fight the banana coastal states and scare lone ships at sea. They are useless against Russia with its vast distances. And after the appearance on the armament of the Russian Aerospace Forces of hypersonic "Daggers" - killers of aircraft carriers, and in the future and hypersonic "Zircons" sea-based, their use against the Russian Federation will mean a 100% guarantee of their sinking. So how can you fight Putin after that ?!