Russian Navy Lays Keels for Two Helicopter Carriers

Maxim Pyadushkin July 22, 2020
Putin
President Vladimir Putin attended the keel-laying ceremony for Russia's new helicopter carrier.
Credit: The Kremlin
MOSCOW—The Russian Navy has laid the keels for two new helicopter carriers that are replacing planned French Mistral-class helicopter landing docks. The latter were ordered by Russia in 2011, but France banned their delivery in 2014 due to the Russian annexation of eastern Ukraine. There is a...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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