Repair "Admiral Kuznetsov" decided to reduce the cost

The military department plans to reduce the amount of financial resources, which is supposed to be allocated for the repair and modernization of the heavy aircraft carrier (TAVKR) Admiral Kuznetsov, Interfax reports with reference to an anonymous source. The agency regularly transfers data on the cost of repairing the only Russian aircraft carrier - it was previously planned to spend about 50 billion rubles on it.

Now the interlocutor of the agency says that they will allocate "about half of the previously declared amount." The reduction in the amount of financing will be primarily on modernization issues. “The repair will be fully made,” the source is sure.

Earlier, the agency’s interlocutors and the amount of 50 billion rubles were called very modest: “This is a lot or a little? Obviously, a little. 50 billion rubles are a little more than 800 million dollars. Repair and modernization of the Vikramatii aircraft carrier of the same aircraft carrier (in the past -“ Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union of Gorshov ”for the India Navy cost $ 2.3 billion.” “Gorshkova” for India was redone for 10 years, and the unofficial estimate during this time increased more than one and a half times.

According to the media, the modernization of the aircraft carrier will be primarily associated with the replacement of four boilers of the main energy installation. Two of them have already been manufactured at the Baltic Plant (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation). Last fall, Kuznetsov went around the covers of the world media during a campaign in the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Syria: observers then raised the ship to laugh because of the trains of black smoke, which was characteristic of armadillos of the early twentieth century, accompanying the aircraft carrier on the march.