LEASE GD, LEASE (Opportunity lost ….)!!!!!

Whilst basing title on role makes sense, it still doesn’t explain DDG1000. It’s role seems to fit a Cruiser role.

Or given the ship is the ultimate jack of all trades, perhaps it should be a Battleship (BB). :p

I suspect it all comes down to politics just like F-16CJ and F/A-18E/F and just like reclassification of Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers in the 1970s due to the “Cruiser Gap.”

Well, the program went from DD 21 (next century destroyer) to DD(X), and programme focus would now be on a family of advanced technology surface combatants, rather than a single ship class.

Varyag should probably be ex-Ukrainian or ex-USSR, Russia never possessed it.

Unless it was a design by a Russian design bureau.
We know where all aviation capable USSR ships were built: Ukraine.

There may have been, but I expect all enquiries will have been met with a complete lack of interest, & the same for the Invincible class. No customers = no sale.

DONATE her to as a museum ship…..

PLEASE MERGE 5 and V threads!!!!

List of diesel powered ice breakers in RUssian Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_icebreakers#Soviet_Union

Diesel-powered icebreakers

Kapitan Khlebnikov en route to Wrangel Island
Kapitan Belousov (1954–1991; sold to Ukraine)[5]
Kapitan Voronin (1955–1996; broken up)[6]
Kapitan Melekhov (1956–1994; broken up)[7]
Moskva (1959–1998; broken up)[8]
Leningrad (1960–1993; broken up)[9]
Khariton Laptev (1962–??; ex-Ledokol-3; broken up?)
Ivan Kruzenshtern (1964–; ex-Ledokol-6)[10]
Yuriy Lisyanskiy (1965–; ex-Ledokol-9)[11]
Kiev (1965–1993; broken up)[12]
Murmansk (1968–1995; broken up)[13]
Vladivostok (1969–1997; broken up)[14]
Fyodor Litke (1970–; laid up)[15]
Semyon Dezhnev (1971–)[16]
Yermak (1974–)
Admiral Makarov (1975–)
Krasin (1976–)
Kapitan M. Izmaylov (1976–)
Kapitan Kosolapov (1976–)
Kapitan A. Radzhabov (1976–)
Kapitan Sorokin (1977–; fitted with Thyssen-Waas bow in 1991)
Kapitan Chechkin (1977–)
Kapitan Plakhin (1977–)
Kapitan Nikolaev (1978–; rebuilt in 1990)
Kapitan Chadaev (1978–)
Kapitan Krutov (1978–)
Kapitan Bukaev (1978–)
Kapitan Zarubin (1978–)
Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980–)
Kapitan Khlebnikov (1981–)
Magadan (1982–)
Mudyug (1982–)
Dikson (1983–)
Kapitan Evdokimov (1983–)
Kapitan Babichev (1983–)
Kapitan Chudinov (1983–)
Kapitan Borodkin (1983–)
Avraamiy Zavenyagin (1984–)
Kapitan Mecaik (1984–)
Kapitan Deminov (1984–)
Kapitan Moshkin (1986–)
Karu (1988–; ex-Karhu, ex-Kapitan Chubakov; purchased from Finland)
Tor (2000–; purchased from Sweden)[17]
Dudinka (2006–; ex-Apu; purchased from Finland)
Moskva (2008–)
Sankt-Petersburg (2009–)

Fuel additive
http://www.westernoil.com.au/containers.php?pagename=FEATURED%20PRODUCT&id=50

Possible section of rumored type 081 LHD?

Probably it is a section from one of the four new LNG ships that have been ordered by Mitsui Osk Line.
http://shipbuildinghistory.com/today/highvalueships/lngactivefleet.htm

See discussion± http://www.china-defense.com/smf/index.php?topic=2107.160

http://www.lngworldnews.com/lng-tanker-due-at-uk-south-hook-this-week-4/

And with that, lets end this debate. Thank you.