The ship delivery date will be postponed
to 2023. The source added The Admiral Kuznetsov will go to the
dock in june next year. The ship will be placed on the slipways
of the new dock to get a propeller
rudder system and undergo hull work. Its repairs will be completed in the
summer of 2023 and it will be delivered
to the navy at the end of the same year.
According to the source the upgraded
dock will be able to receive the ship by
the end of the current year. But it is safer to conduct this
technological procedure in good and warm
weather and in the daylight. The source
added in june 2020 the united shipbuilding
corporation usc signed a contract with
the orjenergostroy company for the
reconstruction and retooling of the
two-section drydock to repair the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.
On october 30/2018 the sole project
7454 large floating dock PD-50 sank in
murmansk while the Admiral Kuznetsov was
leaving it. There were no other suitable docks for
the ship of this displacement in north
russia. Then a decision was made to build a
single chamber extended dock with
dimensions of 70 times 400 meters by
uniting the northern and southern
chambers.
Auch dimensions are necessary for the
dock repair of the heavy aircraft
carrier. the new drydock will be able to receive
russian ships and vessels of all
projects. End naval news comments the Admiral Kuznetsov began the overhaul in 2017
after operating at the syrian coast.
In october 2018 it was leaving the
floating PD-50 dock of the 82nd shipyard
in Rislayakovo when the dock began to
sink. A crane fell on the deck because of list.
On december 12 2019 a fire broke out on
the carrier. The Admiral Kuznetsov is currently in
the 35th shipyard in Murmansk. Repairs are expected to cost 300 to 350
million rubles. Some of the systems aboard the vessel
will be upgraded such as the CIWS.
