MOSCOW, February 14 - RIA Novosti. Construction of the head promising carrier for the Navy (Navy) Russia will take from 8 to 10 years, said Saturday the chief of naval aviation of the Russian Navy, Major General Igor Kozhin on the radio station "Echo of Moscow" .
Earlier, Deputy Chief of the Russian Navy armament Bursuc Victor said that the new Russian aircraft carrier will join the Russian Navy after 2030.
"First, the lead ship - it's from 8 to 10 years. It is understood that it is fully constructed, runs the entire system of state testing, worked through the wing or squadron that will sit on it" - said Kozhin.
He added that the pace of construction of subsequent carriers will be much higher - about 3-4 years on a ship. According to him, at the moment of the conducted research works and there are "serious enough and worked on projects of these ships."
Currently, the battle of the Russian Navy has one aircraft carrier - "Admiral Kuznetsov". Earlier in the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the question of the construction of an aircraft carrier will be decided no earlier than five years. State armaments program until 2020 the construction of an aircraft carrier is not intended.