30/06/2011 16:54
Russia to build nuclear aircraft carrier by 2023
Russia will complete construction of its first nuclear powered aircraft carrier by 2023, the head of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Thursday.
“We will start designing the Russian aircraft carrier in 2016, so that by 2018 we can start construction,” company head Roman Trotsenko said, according to RIA Novosti.
He also said that as the construction period was likely to be five years, the carrier would be put into service in 2023.