
milosh wrote:Old news, Zvezda shipyard today:
Yeah that's just the cranes. They bought 5 cranes: 2 100 ton, 2 320ton and 1 1,200 ton. https://www.rosneft.com/press/news/item/185997/
Having those cranes doesn't mean anything. Those are small-scale as far as naval cranes are concerned (the ones installed so far) and in any case the maximum capacity of the shipyard as of right now is still about 13,000 ton. And that slipway is for repair work anyway. They would need more large scale cranes in the dry-dock, which hasn't even started construction yet.
That doesn't negate anything said here. I'ts still several years away from being able to produce anything of that size, or if and when such a thing will be finished. Construction on the dry-dock or any other facility hasn't even begun. So far they have only expanded the slipway and installed these 100 and 320 ton cranes.
So old news, new news...there's not much going on there to indicate anything of that magnitude being build there.
The project is this:
http://dcss.ru/en/projects/construction ... mplex.html
Which means there's 1 drydock large enough in that shipyard that is planned. Doesn't leave a lot of room for building oil and gas ships and platforms, and aircraft carriers too. But any case, simply because a shipyard can build oil and gas ships of very large size and weight, doesn't mean it can build aircraft carriers.