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The U.S. Navy has little to fear.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The carrier is barely capable of doing what carriers are
supposed to do: launch fighters. When she does, she uses a bow ramp instead of steam catapults, which forces reductions in the planes’ takeoff weight and patrol time.
In December 2011, the Russian navy’s aging, poorly-maintained aircraft carrier
Admiral Kuznetsov departed from its northern base on the troubled vessel’s fourth deployment to the Mediterranean Sea.
True, the full-size carrier which displaces 55,000 tons fully loaded has a history of mechanical troubles since she entered service in 1991. But her operational tempo had increased, the result of a renewed push by Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin to get the fleet out into the oceans for training and patrols.
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It has been 10 years since the start of the war in Syria, but the conflict grinds on with little sign of ending.
Even if the regime of Bashar Al Assad, who has often portrayed himself as a bastion of resistance against the imperialist West, manages to retake Idlib province – the last stronghold of Syria s rebels – the country is now in ruins and bogged down in economic misery.
More than 300,000 people have died and 11 million have been displaced. Many other casualties remain undocumented.
The war s intensity has been driven by the growing realisation among the opposing sides that defeat means near-certain death.
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