Rumor has it that the russians have finally given up on their sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which has been laid up under repairs for the past 8 years, having endured 3 fires, the sinking of her floating dry dock, a crane falling on her deck, and waiting completely unattended for the construction of a new shore-based dry dock.
The ship has been troubled from the start, from getting stolen while incomplete from the recently independent Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, to enduring the consequences of that decision by being left without suitable port and repair facilities, needing to always remain with her engines on while in dock, not to mention losing access to suitable Ukrainian-made spares, instead relying on subpar Russian-made ones originally meant for their submarines.
She has to be the world’s worst aircraft carrier, maybe only surpassed by pre-WW2 japanese and British light carriers.
How did I slight/slander you to earn such condemnation? Yes I was a less than successful conversion, but did I need a dedicated tug to get to port? Could my smoke be seen from space? Shame on you.
