{"id":54571,"date":"2026-04-30T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=54571"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:16:12","slug":"russia-aircraft-carrier-admiral-kuznetsov-decommissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/russland-flugzeugtraeger-admiral-kusnezow-ausserdienststellung\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia's aircraft carrier now \u201eold iron\u201c after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecuadorian news portal El Universo reported towards the end of February, citing a Russian source, that the decision to decommission the aircraft carrier \u201eAdmiral Kuznetsov\u201c had been made in Moscow. After more than eight years in the shipyard and more than a billion dollars in costs, it no longer made sense to revitalise a completely outdated carrier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54572\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54572\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Admiral Kuznetsov, Russian Navy\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-300x217.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-1024x740.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-768x555.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-1536x1110.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar-18x12.jpg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13b-rus-cv-063-cv-kuznetsov-admiral_kuznetsov-2-rus_mar.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Admiral Kuznetsov, Russian Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This would make Russia the first permanent member of the UN Security Council not to have a carrier in its fleet. But what is the UN when there is a \u201eBoard of Peace\u201c under Donald J. Trump? And another thing: Moscow is looking into the possibility of repairing the damaged PD-50 floating dock in return. What for, when you no longer have a carrier? Perhaps for the American Trump class - as a gesture of support between friends?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia's aircraft carrier - the decommissioning of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov after years in the shipyard is being considered<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[12614,12620,12615,12619,12617,12616,12618],"class_list":["post-54571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-admiral-kusnezow-russland","tag-flugzeugtraeger-ausserdienststellung","tag-flugzeugtraeger-russland-zukunft","tag-marine-russland-faehigkeiten","tag-pd-50-schwimmdock-russland","tag-russische-marine-traegerprogramm","tag-werftliegezeit-kusnezow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54574,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571\/revisions\/54574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}