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You’re as good as your weakest link, the 29Ks are abysmal take from that what you will, no point in quoting %, those can be manipulated to show whatever you’d like. It’s obvious the carrier fleet is hobbled by their air arm

At this rate it’s not that likely the 29Ks will outlive the Vikky by much and as it is neither the ship or planes are operating enough to be considered operational. They’ll both limp on for another ~10-15 years it’s not even like the IN has enough helos to make use of a helo carrier. A...

You realise the issue is not availability of the 29K sales but the IN rejecting the type once they found out what a complete liability it is operationally? The Russians could be giving them away and they’d still probably be a bad deal a lot has been published about why these things are a god...

There was talk of France offering a package deal (with discounts) for a repeat purchase of Rafales+MRTT, if Indian side is serious I’m sure similar can happen for the Rafale M deal issue is the default is always an open tender, fhe whole L1/L2 prison bean counters refuse to accept the 330 MRTT...

For the extreme situations where you need full MTOW ops you can do buddy-buddy refuelling But having so few dedicated tankers in Indian service is a seriously retarded situation despite 3 attempts being made to get something new. Taking off with full weapon loads then meeting up with a MRTT...

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It’s a step in the right direction. STOBAR isn’t the end of the world and can be mitigated

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