Russians building 5-6 new aircraft carriers (beginning 2012 …)

This will be significant if it happens.

Part of what’s going on here is jostling for position in a warming Arctic Ocean. A few Russian carriers in an unfrozen Arctic Ocean would make a difficult challenge for the U.S. and Canada. We would struggle to extend carrier power into an ocean that is literally surrounded by Russian airbases.

Russia to rejuvenate its navy - International Herald Tribune

Russia will build five or six aircraft carrier battle groups in the near future, the RIA news agency quoted a navy commander, Vladimir Vysotsky, as saying at Navy Day festivities in St Petersburg.

“We call this a sea-borne aircraft carrier system that will be based on the Northern and Pacific fleets,” Vysotsky said. “The creation of such systems will begin after 2012.”

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