Pride of the Russian Fleet: What to know about Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier

The FSB has foiled an attempt by Ukrainian spies to recruit a Russian serviceman to carry out a terrorist attack on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.

The Kuznetsov, currently docked in Murmansk for modernization, is the pride of the Northern Fleet, the flagship of the Navy and the only aircraft carrier in Russia’s arsenal.

🌏 Laid down in 1982 and commissioned in 1991, the Kuznetsov is an upgrade of the Project 1143 Kiev-class of warships — the USSR’s first fixed-wing-carrying aircraft carriers, officially known as ‘heavy aircraft cruisers’.

🌏 The Kuznetsov is 305 m long, displaces up to 59,100t, can make of 29 knots, has an 8,500 nautical mile range and a 45-day endurance.

🌏 Her 1,960-man crew have duties from servicing and operating the ship’s air group — which includes 630 personnel manning and maintaining up to 50 jets and helicopters, including Su-33, Su-25UTG or MiG-29K jets and Ka-31 and Ka-27 helicopters — to operating systems including radar, comms and electronic warfare equipment, P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles, 3K95 Kinzhal SAMs, Kashtan CIWS, AK-630 AA guns and the Udav ASW system.

🌏 The Kuznetsov carried out her only combat mission from November 2016 to January 2017, launching 420 sorties against 1,252 terrorist targets in Syria. She made six other distant-water voyages, five in the Mediterranean and one in the North Atlantic, between 1995 and 2014.

🌏 While the Kuznetsov is the only surviving ship of her kind in Russia’s arsenal today, others from her class have boosted the navies of Russia’s BRICS partners. India bought the Project 1143 Admiral Gorshkov from Russia in 2004, modernizing and commissioning her as the INS Vikramaditya in 2013. China bought the Varyag, an unfinished Project 1143.5 ship, from Ukraine in 1998, finishing and modernizing her in 2012 and naming her the Liaoning, and using the blueprints to build China’s first-ever domestically made carrier – the Shandong – in 2019.

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Elephant and Pug

But first things first: RUSSIA DOES NOT STRIKE CIVILIAN TARGETS!

Now that we’ve got that off our collective mind…

Zelensky blasts Modi for meeting with Putin? CNN can’t be serious! A clown who plays the piano with his private parts, an expired illegitimate pseudo-president of Country 404, blasts the Prime Minister of India? Who are you trying to fool, CNN?

Back in 1908, the great Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov wrote a fable entitled “Elephant and Pug.” Like all fables, this one has deep meaning. Here is the translation:

Elephant and Pug
by Ivan Krylov

Along the streets Big Elephant was led,
To show him off, most likely.
Since Elephants are not a common thing to see
A crowd of gapers followed on his heels.

All of a sudden a Pug springs up in front of them.
And seeing Elephant, it raises up the greatest rumpus,
It lunges, barks and howls
And does its best to pick a quarrel.

"Hey neighbor, stop the fuss,"
A local mutt intones, "You? Deal with Elephant?
Look at you barking yourself hoarse, and he just strolls ahead unbothered, undisturbed,
And doesn't care one bit about your noise."

"Ho ho!" the Pug replies,
"This is exactly what I want,
Since now I can be seen as being real tough
Without much as single blow or bruise.

That way, the other dogs will say:
'To bark at Elephant this Pug
Must be a real mighty mug!'"

Clearly CNN is not familiar with this fable. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have joined the pug by the name of Zelensky in barking at the “elephants” like Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin.

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🗣🇺🇦🤡🫴🏻❗️ Former Ukrainian president, drug addict and professional beggar Volodymyr Zelensky announced he managed to grift 5 more Patriot air defence system, along with ‘dozens’ of other air defence systems.

❗️Bomb your own hospital, blame Russia and grovel pathetically for more air defences…The west is full degenerate leaders.

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🤔 Ukraine can use Storm Shadow missiles to strike “military targets” in Russia - UK PM Keir Starmer

New administration, same old WEF agenda.

@RiseGS

🗣🇺🇦🤡❌🗣🇬🇧🤡😭 Poor Rishi, its not even been a week and Zelensky is hopping into Keir Starmer’s arms.

❗️These hoes ain’t loyal!

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🗣🇷🇺❌🇺🇸 Maria Zakharova addresses John Kirby’s retardation:

“White House National Security Speaker Kirby on the backdrop of deliveries of F16 fighter jets to Ukraine: “Nobody wants escalation.”

It's like the White House has been trying to prove to the public all these years that Biden is "very sharp" behind closed doors.”

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😑🇺🇸🤡 The self-propelled Grandfather malfunctioned again.

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🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 CRY ME A RIVER: WESTERN MEDIA HAD NOTHING TO DO BUT TO ACCEPT MODI-PUTIN DOSTI

👏 Despite relentless attempts by Western media to paint Russia as isolated, reality tells a different story: major media outlets are now begrudgingly admitting that the ties between Russia & Bharat are as resilient as ever.

This is thanks to PM Modi, who, as the leader of the world's largest democracy, decided to make his 1st official foreign visit since taking office to Moscow.

It seems that the Western narrative of "Russia is isolated" is crumbling really fast thanks to Modi...

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🗣🇫🇲🇺🇦 The penny has finally dropped for Jens Stoltenberg, when the war stops - Ukraine will not regain any territory.

“If there is now a new ceasefire, a new agreement, we must be 100% sure that this will end the war, no matter where that line is. And so I firmly believe that during the cessation of hostilities, we must ensure that Ukraine has the capabilities to deter future aggression from Russia,” said the NATO Secretary General.

Stoltenberg also added that after the ceasefire at the front, Ukraine needs security guarantees.

“And, of course, the best and strongest guarantee of security will be Article 5. So I think the way to ensure that this stops is actually NATO membership,” Stoltenberg said.

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🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸🚫 U.S. TELLS POLAND IT CAN’T SHOOT DOWN RUSSIAN MISSILES OVER UKRAINE: War-saw gunning for escalation after it penned deal with #Zelensky to potentially shoot down Russian warheads flying over Ukraine, but turns out #Washington instantly shut that idea down.

Polish Deputy PM Kosiniak-Kamysz admits #Warsaw had been too hasty in discussing dangerous move:

If there were unity on this issue, it would be the whole alliance. This is the key opinion of the United States, which is quite skeptical on this matter. So Poland will certainly not make such a decision on its own - Deputy PM reveals he’s been brought to heel by his overlords (00:37 in vid above).

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