Last time I read that they were preparing to go to war with Russia.
It was coming
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The most probable buyer may be Turkey.
**If we can get it a dirt cheap price it will be worth it.
We can upgrade it with our arresting recovery systems.
We will never get this aircraft Carrier for 1-2 billion. Even the rust bucket Vikki took a ride from 800Million to 2. 5 Billion. On top of that we put Mid Life refit to replace that Boilers.
Both carriers were facing serious serviceability issues for some time. We don't want another Vikki situation.
We can develop this with our own shipyards. Already we are doing some level of automation via Tata, BEL. We can iterate further bring more automation.
Again this price will never going to 1-2 Billion. If Brits smell we are interested then price 8-10 Billion. The days of vendors ripping us out came to end to limited sense now.
Second Vikrant class is the best for us since lot of suppliers are available and ready to supply again.
The only thing I want to convey is if we get it at dirt cheap price then why not ! They made it for 3.5 billion dollars.. supposedly if nobody buys it they will be ready to sell it at dirt cheap price ! Without hurting any Indian future project..
I don't think they wanna sell this to turkey. neither turkey can afford it given there economic condition..
Let's see what happens if we got it for dirt cheap why not