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That's one great timing..............

Google Earth 1/11 updated pic does show considerable progress. I can see elevators space, though can not say so for sure. A year old pic for comparison.

I second to that. FORCE magazine in 2007 had reported in interview with then naval chief Suresh Mehta that Bharat in collaboration with Israel is developing EMALS.

If F-35 is complex and struggling in spite of having developed F-22 and F-18 and having VTOL master BAE as a prime partner then wait for some time for even seeing Indian Navy even considering it as probable.

True, F-35 the most complex fighter ever to be designed in US similarly IAC-1 is also the most complex, yet largest, yet very first carrier ever to be designed and built in India.

It says 'Cochin' because IAC-1 is being built at Cochin shipyard limited and that Google Earth pic was of IAC-1. I think you are getting confused between IAC-1(Cochin) and ATV(Vizag or Visakhapatnam). I said so by comparing the size of that submarine with Delhi class destroyers which are at 7...

Too small to be 6000 ton Arihant, looks more like Kilo or HDW type submarine. On side note i don't think Navy people would allow a secrete submarine to get constructed in open docks. Even the vague pictures of Arihant show a long submarine in roofed flooded dock.

Errrrrr! Arihant in Mumbai? I don't think Arihant ever moved out of Visakhapatnam docks. IAC-1, thanks to Google Earth.

So true you are, F-35 got delayed by 3 years. :emot15:

Hiccups in Indigenous Aircraft Carrier project: Navy Chief New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) Admitting ''hiccups'' in India's Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) project, Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma today said the 40,000-tonne warship could not be launched this year because of delays in supply of...

Well this definitely is Hanger bay number-2 or one which is behind island. After comparing it with google earth photo i can say IAC looks going fast with construction. Out line minus angled deck visible and now BROADSWORD photo shows second hanger bay.

Good lord! Man, my comparison was not technical but something which was to show that slipping deadlines, cost overruns and unfulfilled promises are not exclusive to Russia rather it is applicable universality even to west including USA. BTW are you saying that F-35 is not missing deadlines...

There is nothing like fact to support a plan or vision. You can best have views, ideas and logic. And when these views and ideas are spoken by officers or related people to media it becomes news. Gorshkov whatever have much to do with poor economic health of Russia as well as weired turn the...

Government will consider only when navy will ask. Right now all talks regarding nuclear powered IAC-2 is because of INS Arihant's reactors. Scientist say, now they can make nuke carriers but to my belief navy will wait to the time to see this reactor passing all sea trials before asking for...

Don't cry too much for 'OFFICIAL' and reliable(second hand source like media is never reliable you can depend only to some extent depending upon the reputation of the source ). 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999 % of news about defense we get today comes through media who quotes unnamed...

After Russia's decision to retrofit Admiral Kuznetsov to CATOBAR, i think it is more or less certain that IAC-2 will be CATOBAR.

HMS Hermes now INS Viraat was launched way back in 1953 and and after eating rust for so many years it was finally commissioned in 1959. Theoretically, maximum life of a carrier is 50 years and now you have Viraat which is 51 years old already and will serve for another 2-3 years. Now you...

Indian Navy's interest in Queen Elizabeth was a media hot gas bubble and nothing else. ..........Indian navy always had the plan to go incremental with following IACs and indication to go for larger IAC called IAC-2 started floating in media months before QE incident.

Regarding naval PAK-FA Regarding naval MCA aka AMCA aka NGFA Regarding Navy plans for IAC-2 Regarding commonality between Indian IAC and new Russian carriers ----------------- After recollecting all these sources(on demand) i discovered, how hard it is to spoon-feed a...

Doesn't matter what will the size of IAC-2, what matters is that no other fighter than Mig-29K, N-LCA and one out of N-MRCA contender will equip IAC-2. And with this no, F-35 is surely ruled out. As far as N-FGFA is concerned then yes its true that Navy aspires to equip IAC-3 and onwards...