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Monday 27 October 2014

Russia to get advanced aircraft carrier in 2030s: official

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MOSCOW (Xinhua) -- Russia has worked out a long-term military development program that envisages construction of an aircraft carrier for the Navy, a high-ranking military official said Saturday.


"An aircraft carrier whose construction is planned will significantly differ from heavy aircraft cruisers that our Navy used to have and has now," Russian Navy Deputy Commander Viktor Bursuk told a local radio station.



"This will be a versatile warship equipped with manned and unmanned aircraft systems and also robotic systems capable of operating in all possible environments, including outer space. Such a vessel may appear in the 2030s," Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.



The official added that Moscow will not seek to catch up with or outdo the U.S. Navy in terms of the number of aircraft carriers in service.



On Thursday, Chief of Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov said Russia would file a lawsuit against France if the latter cancels a contract on building Mistral-class helicopter carriers for Moscow.



Russia and France signed a 1.6-billion-U.S.dollar contract in 2011, under which Paris should deliver the first Mistral-class helicopter assault warship to Moscow in October or November this year, and the second one in 2015.



In September, France suspended the delivery of the first warship, saying "conditions are not in place," as the country's President Francois Hollande put it.



The United States and its allies have imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow over the latter's alleged destabilizing role in the ongoing Ukraine crisis. Russia has repeatedly said unilateral sanctions were illegal and would produce boomerang effects.

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