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It's the gradual evolution in thinking. Vikrant was supposed to be an air defence ship till 2003-4 then navy converted it to full carrier and increased displacement. Similarly navy now wants to move further . When we sanctioned vikrant construction back in 2006-7 our economy was mere 1...

Mid air refueling is good to have once in a while can't do that again and again. Besides mig29k doesn't have much fuel to spare . It's own fuel is barely adequate.

4 derby and 2 r73 are not heavy load at all. Heavy load is when drop tanks and anti-ship missiles are carried. That's where naval lca is challanged.

Vikrant is on twitter now.

Like everything else chinese may be overbuilding their navy . They may have to re evaluate soon what kind of naval force they truly want . If they want to be global navy their hundred around Corvettes will suck too much manpower .

Good question. Chinese didn't attempt to match usa without first expanding their economy massively. They didn't even had a single carrier untill their economy reached 8 trillion mark in 2012. They were not saying look usa at 11 massive carriers and we are doomed so let's tripple our budget...

They'll get marines too if they go for LHD. LHD have another advantage if needed we can too convert them into carriers with f35 in future if chinese have too many carriers around us.

Ultimately we can't win numbers game against China anytime soon. That will beggar the budget. What we need is asymmetric capabilities against chinese numbers. Carrier kill chain with dedicated carrier killer missiles. Hypersonic missiles. More nukes and more ICBM cause that's what really...

We need to be able to conduct assualt operations on all islands in Indian Ocean.

SSN are indegenous. They might have some sennosr sourced from France .

Not just 36 jet!! In last 10 year we have added 36 rafale + 32 lca Tejas + 40-50 Sukhoi 30mki ( which we built from 2012 onwards). So we have added atleast 100 new jets in 10 yrs. This decade should be much better given 73 mk1a and 18 twin seat Tejas are already ordered. Our naval build-up...

And we will have atleast 3 carriers by 2050 too. Vikrant is already here . We will get one more by 2040 at leisure and vikramaditya replacement will be built till 2050. Which is more than enough for IOR. Given that out of 6 carriers chinese will at any given time have 4 available for...

Capital wise investment in 15k more tones will be 20-30% more but operational capabilities ( aircraft storage and sorties rate ) will rise much more . You should read up on British carrier debate as to how they settled at 65k carriers. Also french next gen concept is 75k tons. Chinese are now...

I agree that we need to sort out submarines fleet first and build many more destroyers and frigates . Buy critical equipment like Minesweeper and landing transport dock for assault operation before we need another carrier. But if we don't build another carrier now we will loose all the...

Brothers welcome.

Ins vikramaditya is on twitter in case you don't know. I'm sure Vikrant will join soon keep watching.

MT30 is going on in multiple western ships. And we don't know if it's engine breakdown or something else with vikky. Point is carriers are hard to maintain no matter Russian or western.

🤣 They don't need to side with india. Anyway china has no capability to capture South China sea. It can't even capture Taiwan . 😂

UK's brand new carrier price of Wales just broke down while sailing for USA. Show's how difficult is maintainace of these giants . People who write off vikramaditya because of few issues should take note.

Oh yes that's why Philippines bought bramhos . And that's why Vietnam accepted 500 million line of credit. All because of zero trust in India. Stop reading gobar times.