>>64432085
>Submarines are just about the only warship that makes sense in the arctic since it can go under the ice.
Why do they need to go under the ice? There's nothing under there.
>As for there air craft carrier it has been important in projecting Russian power in the Mediterranean as well as on a purely theoretical basis.
No, it's been a massive waste of money for them for thirty years, and it broke down almost immediately when they tried to use it in the Mediterranean (immediately after being refit and modernized), and needed to be towed home long before they left the area.
>In the case of the battle cruisers and there air craft carrier for that matter. They are product of the soviet union. So the Russian federation didn't try and build them they were legacy ships and why get rid of them.
Because they're spending tens of millions of dollars they don't have every single year on them, and can't afford the billions of dollars it would cost to maintain them properly, and get absolutely no value out of them.
>>64432099
Kursk happened a decade after the fall of the USSR. Sure, you can blame the USSR for it partially since their maintenance standards weren't any better by the end, but the point I'm making is that Russia should have fixed that shit when they ended up with practically the entire Soviet fleet with a fraction of the available funding.
>>64432121
The surface fleet is even worse off, if anything.
>>64432164
Taking out aircraft carriers and stopping a zerg rush in Europe are not viable goals for the Russian Federation. They are not a global power and haven't been for their entire existence. They should have been focusing on projecting power within their sphere of influence, which ends at China, Turkey, and Poland. If Russia hadn't been such a fucking joke, Ukraine wouldn't have started talking about joining NATO in the first place.