Russia to offer Project 23000E for India’s fourth aircraft carrier

Russia’s Izvestia newspaper says Krylovsky State Research Center (KRSC) will be offering its Project 23000E aircraft carrier design to India. New Delhi is preparing to start construction for its second indigenous carrier.

Model aircraft carrier project 23000E at the «Army 2015» 3
By Artem Tkachenko (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The Shtorm-class carrier has a displacement between 90,000 – 100,000 tons and there is a ski jump plus two catapults.

Russia believes the Shtorm is a frontrunner as Moscow is willing to allow more technology transfer compared to France and United States.