The new aircraft carrier will be built for the Russian Navy, said Nikolai Maksimov, head of the Institute of Shipbuilding and Armament of the Military Training and Research Center of the Navy of the Russian Defense Ministry. Its reported by Interfax.
"The aircraft-building complex is planned to be built, which will include the aircraft carrier itself, the air wing and the location system," he said on the Zvezda TV channel.
A new aircraft carrier will combine the ski-jump ramp for take-off and accelerating device, said channel head of Department of forward planning of ships of the military educational and scientific center of the Navy of Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation Vladimir Pepelyaev. “If you combine the ski-jump ramp and accelerating device, then we will increase opportunities off weight of the aircraft,” he said.
According to him, on Board the aircraft carrier will be based on the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter, in the case if the decision on the establishment of its marine version. "Su-57 will be adopted for the deck, if it is decided," said Pepelyaev.
