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INS Vikrant has a wet bar??!!!

Still needs to be over 1 million tons of displacement to be a real player and over 3 million tons to be a real heavyweight.

no they become fixed and makes it easy to be destroyed by a first strike. Missiles need to be mobile to get second strike capability.

We need to use the concept of tranches to incorporate upgrades in an incremental manner and use 7-10 year refitting periods to incorporate upgrades into already built ships.

It’s necessary if you are fighting against Pakistan and China and you need to account for attrition losses and rotational issues.

Too expensive to go all nuclear. India should get at least 15 nuclear SSNs and 30-45 SSKs.

Probably got caught in its fishing nets and it had to pop up to unentangle the nets and ropes.

dead link.

Who is she?

But they cannot venture too far out in the sea and do not have long term sea keeping capability which matters a lot but does not get mentioned in armchair warriors’ discussions about better specs.

If this happens, then QUAD is dead and we need to close down the US consulate in Hyderabad and restrict all NGOs from receiving funds from non NRI sources. As with NRI sources, NRI (and I do not mind) should sign statements that funds are to be used for investment or building necessary...

Can you provide any source that support what you wrote? or is that inside info? Yes the chinese SSKs have not entered into service but they are slated to be inducted so IN needs to be prepared.

You discounted the subs. The subs are the deadliest unseen threat. The Su-30s with their brahmos missiles and P-8 coverage will take care of the surface fleet but the Paki subs remains the biggest threat to IN and strategic assets on the west coast of India and they can fire the SM-39 Exocet...

You have no argument from me. The only way to get there is if we develop our own naval grade steel (which we have), engines (which we have not), radar (which we have), missiles (which we have), and electronic gear (up to a point- we don’t manufacture our own electronic sub components).

Some of their destroyers are really frigates.

Perhaps that has to do with being able to incorporate the kind of radar you want and the shape of the cone must correspond with it.

i think it’s a case of the French trying to scalp us Indians and we Indians took offense to that.

Disagree with you. All of India's conflicts with China occurred on land and we cannot afford to lose territory to China. So Army gets the priority. They guard the border against PLA on a daily basis in very grueling conditions.

Don't get too complacent and lazy. Be constantly vigilant and don't take anything for granted.

They have to take stock of and hedge against rising inflation and payroll costs.