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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Russia axes plan for new aircraft carriers

Admiral Nikolai KuznetsovA top Russian commander conceded Friday that Moscow lacked the funds to deploy a powerful new armada of aircraft carriers as promised by the Kremlin.

“The state armaments programme for 2011-2020 does not envision the construction of aircraft carriers,” an unnamed senior official in Russia's Defence Ministry told the Interfax news agency.

He said current funding plans allowed the military to come up with new designs but not proceed with actual construction.

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