The Varan aircraft carrier represents “a huge unified platform on the basis of which it is possible to create several types of large surface ships: an aircraft carrier, a universal amphibious assault ship, a transport and hospital ship, and even a support vessel for the Arctic zone,” says Dmitry Litovkin, TASS columnist. / p>
“The project now exists exclusively in the form of a computer picture. Nevertheless, it allows us to think about where the domestic shipbuilding is heading,” the author assures.
The observer emphasizes that the project of the Nevsky Design Bureau (PKB) is distinguished by modularity of construction, which “should speed up the production process, ensure the scalability of ships under construction, and most importantly, change their profile without much effort.”
The author emphasizes that a similar technology is currently being implemented, in particular, at the Sevmash plant (Severodvinsk), where nuclear submarines are being built.
Litovkin recalls that the Rubin Central Design Bureau (CDB) has already “developed a line of modular unmanned underwater vehicles”.
In February, the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexei Rakhmanov said that “the ship of the future is an environmentally friendly, intelligent and adaptable machine. It is made using new materials and has a bionic design.”
In January, Forbes wrote that Russian shipyards have still not recovered from the post-Soviet collapse, as a result of which modern Russia is not building large ships, but much smaller frigates and corvettes, as well as submarines.