NPKB Unveils Alternative Carrier Design for Russian Navy
The Lamantin project draws heavily on the work performed by NPKB to adapt the Vikramaditya for STOBAR operations by the Indian Navy
The Lamantin design includes an extended deck to provide additional aircraft parking on the starboard side of the island. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
The Lamantin design includes an extended deck to provide additional aircraft parking on the starboard side of the island. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Following a series of fruitless attempts to win government funding for a next-generation aircraft carrier program for the Russian navy, the shipbuilding industry is making yet another effort by offering what it describes as “an affordable nuclear carrier without exotic solutions." A scale model of the Project 11430E Lamantin (Manatee) was unveiled at the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg earlier in July.


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