Russia’s ‘Sad, Smoky’ Aircraft Carrier Fails Mediterranean Syria Mission
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DOVER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov passes through the English channel on October 21, 2016 near Dover, England. The Russian Navy's flotilla of warships is presumed to be heading to the eastern Mediterranean to support the Russian military's current deployment in Syria. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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by John Hayward9 Dec 20169
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According to a report by the UK Daily Mail, Russia has just about given up on launching missions into Syria from its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, following a “calamitous voyage from Russia to the Mediterranean.” Fighters and bombers from the carrier have reportedly been moved to the Syrian air base at Hmeymim.
A fighter jet slid off the deck of the carrier and was lost at sea earlier this week, the second aircraft to be lost during Admiral Kutzentsov’s deployment to the Mediterranean. Less than three weeks before that, a pilot was forced to eject from his MiG-29 fighter when he could not land, reportedly because of a malfunction of the arresting wire.
The pilot of the MiG-29, Igor Matkovsky, was born in Crimea long before the Russians annexed it, so a cheeky Ukrainian volunteer organization called The Peacemaker gave him an award for “the destruction of the fourth-generation MiG-29K carrier-based multi-role fighter in the Mediterranean Sea, which abruptly halted using it for war crimes related to the mass killings of peaceful Syrian citizens.”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/12/09/russia-admiral-kuznetsov-little-aircraft-carrier/
