>>63978575>since the major yards are all in UkraineRussia has a ton of major yards in russia proper. They've even spent a ton of money to rebuild and combine two dry docks into a mega dry dock to work on the Kuznetsov, after it sunk their largest floating dock kek. What they don't have is:
- skills and experience, i.e. people building Kuznetsov remained in Mykolaiv, Ukraine;
- money, which became an issue post-2014, but after 2022 it became a disaster;
- contractors & other infrastructure, i.e. a ton of reasons why Kuznetsov was always fucked up is not only because it was badly serviced, but also because a ton of parts were from Ukraine, and they stole the ship without the corresponding port infrastructure for it;