Summary and Key Points: The Russian Navy’s sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, is widely regarded as a carrier in name only due to its persistent technical issues and operational failures.

Russia’s Sole Aircraft Carrier May Be Cursed Unlike modern carriers that are powered by nuclear energy, Kuznetsov runs on a goopy, tar-like substance called mazut. During the Cold War, this fuel ...

On paper, the Admiral Kuznetsov isn't necessarily a bad ship, though it's not truly comparable to an American aircraft carrier. Still, the Admiral Kuznetsov displaces 55,000 tons of seawater ...

The carrier returned from a mission in the Mediterranean last year where Russia is supporting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, was damaged ...

MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is set to undergo sea-trials in 2022, a source in the national shipbuilding corporation told TASS on Friday. "Next summer ...

October 13, 2009: The Russian Navy is buying 24 MiG-29Ks (for about $42 million each) to replace the Su-33s currently operating from the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov. It was last year that the carrier ...

China, a rising great power, has two conventional carriers resembling the Kuznetsov, but the country is working on a third carrier that could be the country's first modern flattop. Russia ...

MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Russia’s Sukhoi-33 fighter jet crashed in the Mediterranean while landing on The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement ...

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov was hitting back at the UK for criticism of Russia's ageing carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail on Monday from ...

"We have alternatives actually for all the ships except for [the aircraft carrier] Admiral Kuznetsov," Head of the United Ship-Building Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told the state-run TASS news ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to hijack a small charter flight from an airport near Leningrad and escape to ...

Reports from a Russian sports site said Evgeny Kuznetsov could terminate his contract with the Carolina Hurricanes to head to the KHL, although an agent said it's too early to discuss. After ...