The Lamantin, meanwhile, has been dubbed by its supporters as being a smaller and cheaper—and therefore more realistic—new aircraft carrier design for the Russian Navy. Almost all acknowledge ...

TASS/. The Nevskoye Design Bureau (part of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation) unveiled the newest Project 11430E ‘Lamantin’ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Its mockup was shown on ...

Back in 2020, the Barents Observer, a publication specializing in Russian military news, identified two competing programs as being the keys to understanding post-Soviet Russian aircraft carrier ...