Pepelyaev should spent his retirement years building models of aircraft carriers because that's as close as he or Russia will ever get to having a fleet of flattops.

The construction of Russia’s promising aircraft carrier ... Planning and Design Bureau created a draft model of the promising aircraft carrier with a displacement of 100,000 tons which was ...

Russia will build two assault ships ... "The development of the helicopter carriers will begin in 2018, and the pilot model will be completed in 2020 and delivered to the fleet in 2024.

Russia's flagship aircraft carrier Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza ... a carrier-specific model. As noted by Maya Carlin for The National Interest, "As the carrier variant of the Joint Strike ...

Russian patriots are acutely aware that great powers operate carriers; Russia wants to be known as a... Here’s What You Need to Remember: Countries that Moscow regards as peers or inferiors ...