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Both France and the UK have made unsolicited offers to share design. The UK offered on three separate occasions to outright sell the HMS Prince of Wales and has recently revived its offer for design sharing of a CATOBAR QE2 (which they spent £28M on during the brief phase when the RN had decided...

IAC 2 can kick off once the IN accepts certain facts of reality rather than continuing to behave like spoiled children - STOBAR is a dead end philosophy. STOVL will force you to beg Unkil to let you buy the F-35 unless you expect HAL to make Tejas V/STOL. So CATOBAR is the only realistic option...

Lessons learned can be implemented if a sister vessel is built. Right now they're basically on track to reinvent the wheel totally with the 65k T IAC2. Expect a similar culsterfu*ck in that too because most likely that will be built in a different yard (either HSL or L&T Kakinada) so whatever...

One thing that has to be appreciated in all this clusterf*ck....the Vikrant will, by the time it is finally commissioned, have been in construction for the best part of two decades. The basic computers and tech installed will be at least a decade old by the time the vessel enters service...

This is what happens when you build your sensitive assets in a Commie infested state at a yard notorious for its Left supporting Unions. Lucky it got discovered, the ultimate aim might not have to been to steal data but to replace the drives with similar ones supplied by their masters which have...

Agreed and I never made any assertion regarding the technology. The difference is that here the entire chain from R&D to Shipyard has historically been an assortment of PSU's all of which operate with the same inefficient and unaccountable system of often conflicting methodologies. If a Govt...

Happens purely because there is NO incentive given to anyone in the supply chain to be ON TIME and ON TARGET with any Deadline. Everyone takes their own sweet time and entire project can get idled for years without any visible accountability due to a single problem or missing component. Why...