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EMALS is having teething problems. Airframes are getting overstressed using EMALS. Also, IAC 2 is not nuclear powered, but wishes to use electric drives which is also a new technology and had teething problems. It is better for these technologies to mature. We have to go slow on IAC 2.

This is a new plane in service for both Russia and India. Of course, there will be minor problems. Adding another type complicates inventory management, training and adds unnecessary cost overheads. F-18 or Rafale needs to be tested for STOBAR operations. The problem with availability of Mig...

IN can just stick with Mig-29Ks. The problems will be grdaually eliminated. Range will not be a problem with dorsal CFTs.

@Pulkit The problem is adding a single carrier means adding 10-15 ships for the task force including Submarines and capital ships...all of which are extremely expensive and can cut into the budget - money that can be used to build up other more urgent capabilities. Carriers are necessary for...

PNS Ghazi was sent to take down INS Vikrant. Through a clever ruse, we hid Vikrant in Andaman while fed wrong Intel to Pak that it was in Visakhapatnam. In future, Pakistan' s Qing..class Submarines will threaten our aircraft carriers. Even US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to modern...

Why more carriers? How are you going to use the carriers in potential wars? We should plug our gaps before trying to convert to a blue water Navy. In the last war, we hid our carrier. In any conflict, most of our naval effort will go in trying to save the carriers than actual fighting, which...

This is about the Pakistani submarine Ghazi sent to sink INS Vikrant. India fed Pakistan wrong Intel on Vikrant's location