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Is there anyone working in Cochin Shipyard in this forum? Recently all the three carriers were there at the same time . When I was working there I was lucky enough to attend to Viraat and junior Vikrant .

I feel one EMALS will be for shore based testing and training like at INS Hansa and the rest will be for two carriers .

But why were the Catapults removed? Were they considered inferior to ski jump

Thank you ... My mistake I thought about R22 Viraat

I have visited both the Viraat and the new under construction Vikrant at Cochin shipyard ..

The viraat didn't have steam catapults. It was a ski jump carrier

Let us first deal with steam catapults , learn the challenge involved and move to EMALS later when we can afford a Gerald Ford size carrier

See the American naval nuclear reactors use Highly enriched uranium (HEU) , which generates more energy and has longer inter refuelling time gap(20 years) . India uses the light enriched uranium type which produces less power and have to be refueled every 5 years . So unless the Americans give...

Please dont talk about things you dont know . In 2011 i got several opportunities to walk inside and out of the hull of IAC-1 in the building dock of Cochin Shipyard then itself more than 90% of the hull work was over , the remaining work then was cabling and fitting of auxillaries which would...

But Pipav is a private shipyard isn't it ?? If the order is given to Pipav instead of a govt owned shipyard then allegations of corruption etc will dog the construction efforts .