Aircraft carrier project still pending, USC says

The issue of construction of an aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy has not yet been resolved, United Shipbuilding Corporation said Wednesday.

Sergei Farafonov, Vice-President of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation said at the International Maritime Defense Show (IMDS-2013) that the project has been under consideration.

Roman Trotsenko, former president of the state-owned shipbuilding holding had said that the USC is capable to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. In his turn, Anatoly Serdyukov the then Defense Minister of RF also had said that the Ministry expects to have developed a draft project of the nuclear aircraft carrier by 2013.