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Co-Developing a Capital Ship: A Historic Opportunity for Washington and New Delhi The opportunity for the United States and India to collaborate in building India’s next-generation aircraft carrier should not be frittered away by piddling ambition or a failure of imagination. The chance to...

The Integrate Function: Indispensable and Highly Rewarding Cooperation When all is said and done, closer bilateral cooperation in the integrate area will yield the Indian Navy the highest rewards, beyond anything else it may do with respect to acquiring specific carrier technologies from the...

The Move Function: Desirable and Potentially Indispensable Cooperation India’s needs in the other functional areas are more modest, with one significant exception: the move function. If the future Indian carrier is propelled by gas turbines alone (as the Vikrant is), or by combined diesel and...

Designing India’s Future Carriers for Operational Success The principal objective that should guide bilateral cooperation in carrier development is the need to ensure that India’s next-generation aircraft carrier—to include its air wing and its capacity for combat operations—will be superior to...

Making Waves: Aiding India’s Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier The United States and India have agreed to form a working group to explore the joint development of India’s next-generation aircraft carrier. While the Indian Navy has already begun design work, wide-ranging cooperation with the...

EMALS Feasibility Design and Simulation of an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System http://vtb.ee.sc.edu/vtbwebsite/downloads/publications/emals%20formatted%20for%20IAS.pdf