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Originally Posted by Catfish
^ Skybird meant that Russia does not seem to partake in action against syrian Rebels, Kurds and terrorists like Daesh anymore, instead of finishing the 'job'.
He did not doubt Russia would stay to build and use some infrastructure in Syria for future russian military operations.
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And I said that we are not actually leaving but rather rotating. Which means that we would keep conducting operations against the various rebels.
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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Been reading Kuznetsov's power plant specs. Stuff like that hasn't been seen in a modern navy since the 60's. I guess it wasnt really designed to project power abroad like U.S. carriers are though so effeciency probably not much of a concern. Sources did say that it was scheduled to come out fighting between 2017 and 2020 with either gas turbines or a nuclear power plant. But I tellya if government contract work in Russia is anything like what we have here in the U.S. it would probably be cheaper to invest in a new ship.
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The control system for boilers is bust and we no longer have the skills to repair/maintain it b/c USSR went bust. Chinese just replaced the boilers alltogether. There are a lot of other things that piled up since it was accepted into service and I hope that they would all get fixed during the midlife repair.
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Originally Posted by Oberon
Is a power supply upgrade (or at least full overhaul) planned for the refit?
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I don't remember seeing any official orders for it, but I would assume that we would change the boilers and do a lot of other work on Kuznetsov.