China has recent experience building large aviation warships, while Russia has no experience building a surface ship larger than a destroyer since the end of the Cold War. ...
Analysts are skeptical. According to CNA’s Michael Kofman, “the idea is not entirely crazy, it is simply that there is little discernible need for a carrier in the Russian navy."
Oh please God, make this so.
I'd rather Russia try--and fail--to build a carrier on its own.
But you take whatever foolish spending you can get.
