The president of United Shipbuilding Corporation told Rossiya’24 news channel that his shipyards will attend technological capability for building aircraft carriers by the beginning of 2019.
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“If you take up the technological capability for building aircraft carriers, we hope to acquire it by the beginning of 2019 as long as modernization works are completed,” Rakhmanov said. “That’s the level of readiness that will enable us to say whether or not we’re prepared to build a large-tonnage ship, be it a commercial vessel or a naval ship.”