:-) Hope for some (retarded nasal radiators)...
https://news.usni.org/2016/12/05/sec...afe#more-22726
"...The two crashes show potentially weaknesses in their naval aviation enterprise. The MiG crash – if it did result from the fighter running out of fuel – illustrates Russian naval aviation doesn’t have an organic aerial refueling capability. The Russians also have historically had a shortage of qualified aviators.
A new Russian naval aviation training facility that was set to open in 2015 is still not operational. To make up some of the difference, Russians have used retired naval aviators to fill in gaps in personnel.
“A few years ago there were stories they were largely contractors as pilots,” Eric Wertheim — naval analyst and author of U.S. Naval Institute’s Combat Fleets of the World — told USNI News on last month. “They’ve been trying to pass that skill on but there’s not the ability to do that because the pool is small and they’re not a lot of facilities available.”..."