[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

I will say after reviewing the Kuznetsov design it is very poor indeed, i hve found many flaws in the construction and design of the carrier

You have found? Wow, if you got any blueprints or diagrammatics of the carrier, could you quietly shuffle me some?

i think the Russian navy would still be better suited to using the smaller Kiev class as it implements the whole self defence role alot better.

I agree - do something like the Gorshkov refit they plan to do for India.

Putting a VLS system in the middle of the runway is in my opinion not the best idea, those hatches have been damaged by heavy seas many times before so whats a SU-27 going to do if it lands hard or crashed on them?

Well, the silos were supposed to be from those on the submarines - they even have to be flooded, so from the Kursk experience I don't think they'd blow very hard.

the lack of a catapult is a draw back it does mean the SU-27 and MIG-29 cant take off with a full payload, again the catapults cant be put into the ship because the missile tubes and VLS systems are in the way.

Which system was in the way...

I think the kuznetsov is all bark no bite but it still a capible vessel no matter and still can pack a punch, ive seen the vessel from a distance and even so its huge the missiles are huge the centre island is huge the whole ship is huge however the engines are small and so the ship is also underpowerd and only has four four bladed propellors where as the USN nimitz has four five bladed propellors.

The nice saving grace is the huge effort it takes to get an extra knot, so even underpowered (I think it was the same engines on the Kiev) it can make 29.

I would like to see a missile system such as a SS-N-22 VLS launched ship defence system and SA-N-9 SAM missile systems and also newer versions of the CIWS systems as well as better protected sensors and at least an attempt to start with stealth tech.

I'd either modernize the SS-N-19, which is a very potent system, or just go to smaller cruise missiles like the Klub. And why do you want the SA-N-9? We are going for the carrier-cruiser concept. There are Russian missiles like the 9M96E2 which don't take up that much more space and have 120km range. Supposedly it has 1km min range, so you don't have to complement it with a last ditch PD missile. Navalize that and put it on the ship...