{"id":199728,"date":"2007-07-02T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/02\/russians-to-launch-nuclear-powered-carrier\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T20:51:00","slug":"russians-to-launch-nuclear-powered-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/02\/russians-to-launch-nuclear-powered-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians to Launch Nuclear Powered Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation week is covering the new aircraft, but to me, the building of a carrier is more interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2007-07-02%C2%A7ion=News+Breaks&amp;headline=News+and+information+from+around+the+globe\">MiG is beginning flight testing<\/a><\/span> (subscription required)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Aviation Week &#038; Space Technology<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">07\/02\/2007, page 18<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">MiG is beginning flight testing of the latest iteration of the MiG-29K carrier-borne derivative of the Fulcrum, which is destined for the Indian navy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The two-seat variant, the MiG-29KUB, flew for the first time in January. Under a contract with India, signed in 2004, 12 single-seat and four two-seat aircraft were ordered as part of the $1.5-billion deal covering the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. The single-seat MiG-29K uses the same forward fuselage section as the two-seat aircraft, including the canopy. The second cockpit, however, is replaced with an additional fuel tank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Credit: ALEXEY KOMAROV<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The MiG-29 could yet find its way into the Russian navy inventory, which only includes the Su-33 in the combat role. Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Masorin says its future carrier requirement is for a ship &#8220;with some 50,000 tons displacement. We assume the carrier will accommodate 30 aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotorcraft.&#8221; The new class of nuclear-powered ship would replace the Admiral Kuznetsov after 2015.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By comparison, the Charles de Gaulle displaces 40,600 tons, their future Carrier will displace about 65,000 tons, and the Nimitz class super carriers displace about 102,000 tons.<\/p>\n<p>The Nimitz has a complement of about 75 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if they will continue with the ski jump, or go with catapults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation week is covering the new aircraft, but to me, the building of a carrier is more interesting. MiG is beginning flight testing (subscription required) Aviation Week &#038; Space Technology07\/02\/2007, page 18 MiG is beginning flight testing of the latest iteration of the MiG-29K carrier-borne derivative of the Fulcrum, which is destined for the Indian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}