Russia’s Krylov State Scientific Center will display at the Army-2019 military and technical forum a principally new concept of an aircraft carrier that will outshine the UK’s flattop Queen Elizabeth by its operational characteristics, Center Scientific Head Valery Polovinkin told TASS on Tuesday.

"This year, we will demonstrate a full-fledged aircraft carrier from our viewpoint with a displacement of about 60,000 tonnes and with a very substantial and balanced pool of aircraft," the Krylov Center’s scientific head said, noting that "this is a fundamentally new solution for the aircraft carrier project."

An aircraft carrier with a conventional propulsion unit is the distinctive feature of the version offered to the Navy. It features a gas turbine power unit. To a certain extent, it can be compared to the UK’s aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. They are about equal by their displacement but the conceptual project of the Krylov Center has an advantage by the number of aircraft, sea endurance and, most importantly, by the number of take-off places," Polovinkin said.

This advantage has traditionally been achieved through the developer’s concentrated work on the hull form and the efforts to increase the deck area, he said. "The latter factor will allow housing parallel take-off positions and we are attempting to boost supplies, in the first place, aircraft fuel supplies," the Center’s scientific head said.

"This is a full-fledged aircraft carrier but with certain restrictions," Polovinkin stressed.