The Syrian experience of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and other warships of the Russian Navy will be used in the design and construction of new warships, Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Korolev told navymen and pilots who returned from Syria.

"Work is ongoing. In design of new warships we shall take into account everything related to the operation with engagement of combat aircraft and specifically of seaborne aviation," he said.



"All types of protection and defense of the aircraft carrying group at sea" will also be taken into account, Korolev said.



The group including the Admiral Kuznetsov, the Petr Veliky heavy nuclear missile cruiser, big antisubmarine ships Severomorsk and Vice Admiral Kulakov and supply vessels sailed out on October 15, 2016. On November 1 the Russian defense minister reported their arrival in the Mediterranean Sea. In two months of the operation the Admiral Kuznetsov's aircraft made 420 combat sorties, including 117 at night and destroyed over a thousand facilities of terrorists. The large-scale navigation to the Mediterranean Sea with combat seaborne aircraft engagement was accomplished for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy.



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