June 30, 201115 yr I'd agree that its an ambitious or optimistic (at best) outlook, among several, including a perhaps even more unlikely "nuclear powered destroyer". That said, 2023 is a long ways away, and who's to say what the political/economic/military situation in Russia (or elsewhere) will be? Would anyone in 1985 have bet that the USSR, twelve years later, in 1997, would have looked the way it did? They may not have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the water by 2023, but who knows what might be on the slipway.
June 30, 201115 yr Author They may not have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the water by 2023, but who knows what might be on the slipway. A late Kiev conversion?
June 30, 201115 yr A late Kiev conversion? If Gorshkov/Vikramaditya is still on the slipway in 2023, I'd expect she'll be ready for the Alang breakers instead of active service.
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