The heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov may get the latest partially-tested automated system of short-range navigation and control of deck-based aircraft’s flights, approaching and landing operations while it undergoes repairs, a source in the domestic defense industry told TASS on Tuesday.

"In the course of repairs, there are plans to replace the old Rezistor-K42 system with a new complex similar to Rezistor-E that proved its worth in the Indian Navy The new equipment integrates Russian electronics and has not undergone full-scale trials yet at one of the two NITKA [ground-based aircraft training] facilities available in Russia," the source explained.

TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet.

As open sources suggest, some parts of the latest system whose name is unfamiliar to TASS, were delivered to the NITKA pilot training facility in Yeisk in southern Russia. In particular, the facility received the system’s secondary radar. However, the combined equipment has not been tested in full due to the facility’s unpreparedness. As was reported earlier, the NITKA ground-based aircraft training facility in Yeisk may be put into operation only in 2023 instead of 2016.