Lets look at exactly what was said…
So they have built a dock designed to build large LNG tanker vessels to the west, and anticipate using said docks also for the production of aircraft carrier vessels. The project they are talking about will be “not less than” 100m long but then there are frigates like the Neustrashimyy that are not less than 100m long… 129m in fact. Perhaps the new carrier will be a double hulled cat design. If the requirement is fleet air defence then catapaults would only be needed for AEW aircraft. Making it nuclear powered would greatly improve its reach, and also provide lots of electrical power for an EM catapault if they want heavy AEW on board.
Talk of multiroled modular vessels suggests its escorts might not be custom designed like AEGIS cruisers, but a modular cruiser escort with fairly heavy air defence armament based on S-400 type weapons would be quite potent.
Compare a carrier of just over 100m length with 30 combat aircraft including fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft with the current Kuznetsov which is 300m long and has about 54 operational aircraft on board.
Personally I think these new carriers might be relatively cheap to buy and operate and could be used in pairs to provide 24/7 coverage of a naval unit. For smaller navies individual or pairs of such vessels might be much more affordable than even a single Kiev or larger class vessel.
They would likely be flexible enough to act as helo carriers for disaster efforts too and with nuclear propulsion should be able to get to disaster areas quicker.
There’s no way IMHO that there will be a carrier ‘just over 100m with 30 combat aircraft’. The smallest carrier in service that I’m aware of is the Royal Thai Navy ship Chakri Naruebet: Length 182.6m overall, Draught 6.2m, Flight deck 174.5m x 27.5m. The ship is equipped with six multi-mission Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk helicopters, supplemented with six ex-Spanish Matador AV-8S (Harrier) short take-off/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The flight deck, which terminates in a 12° ski jump, can accommodate five simultaneous helicopter take-off/landings; the hangar provides space for ten medium helicopters or Harrier-sized aircraft.
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