After 9 Years and $1 Billion, Russia’s Aircraft Carrier Is Getting Scrapped. It’s a Monument to Everything Wrong With Its Navy.
The Admiral Kuznetsov has been out of service since 2017. Its dry dock sank beneath it, a 70-ton crane fell onto the flight deck, fires broke out below deck, and a shipyard chief was arrested for…
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