Não tem duvidas o novo Csar da Rússia anda com vontade de fazer frente ao imperador dos USA e ameaçando ao mesmo tempo OTAN.....mais uma óptima noticia para os falcões do Pentágono, siga a marinha.....
State TV: Russia Navy Carrier Back in Full Service
By REUTERS, MOSCOW
Russia has started flying jets again from its only operational aircraft carrier after a two-year break, state-run television reported Sunday in the latest show of the country’s reviving military capability.
“Aircraft are taking off and landing from the deck of the Kuznetsov after a gap of two years. To the pilots and crew, [the gap] seemed enormous,” Channel One television said in a report from on board the vessel.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia was returning to its Soviet-era practice of sending long-range bomber aircraft on regular patrols near NATO airspace.
Observers saw those sorties as a sign of Russia’s growing assertiveness and ambitions to extend its global reach — helped by a budget swelled by revenues from energy exports.
Senior admirals have also said they want to re-establish a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea, something Moscow has not had since the Soviet collapse.
Russia’s other aircraft carriers have either been decommissioned or sold. The television report did not say why flights from the Admiral Kuznetsov had been halted.
Previous media reports have said the ship, which first entered service in the 1980s, has spent long periods in port or undergoing repairs because of technical problems and a lack of funding.