INS Vikramaditya (Adm Gorshkov) aircraft carrier

[HeinzGud]

The military objective is enhanced surveillance and strike capability in IOR and other places like Bay Of Bengal and Andaman sea..

The political objective is power projection..

Could it face the Chinese Varyag carrier with its su33 and stuff???........... How well it serve India if Chinese carrier enters Indian Ocean??

 

[trackwhack]

Could it face the Chinese Varyag carrier with its su33 and stuff???........... How well it serve India if Chinese carrier enters Indian Ocean??

Varyag will carry 26 Su 33 rip-offs - the J15 Shenyang
Gorshkov will carry 24 Mig 29K's

Take your Pick

 

[Dovah]

Could it face the Chinese Varyag carrier with its su33 and stuff???........... How well it serve India if Chinese carrier enters Indian Ocean??

Carriers fight against "each other "only in video games.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Could it face the Chinese Varyag carrier with its su33 and stuff???........... How well it serve India if Chinese carrier enters Indian Ocean??

Even in theory:

You have compare CBG of both sides, Also the Kind of Aircraft specs, Indian MIG-29K are superior to J15`s Avionic & Radar and ECM protection, Range is not a issue nor the Weaponry..

 

[HeinzGud]

Even in theory:

You have compare CBG of both sides, Also the Kind of Aircraft specs, Indian MIG-29K are superior to J15`s Avionic & Radar and ECM protection, Range is not a issue nor the Weaponry..

J15 is not the problem waht about Su 33 why India chose MIG 29K over SU33??

 

[The Messiah]

Couple of bhramos and chini carrier will be at the bottom of the Indian ocean.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

J15 is not the problem waht about Su 33 why India chose MIG 29K over SU33??

Indian actually wanted SU-33, But Russian themselves trashing SU33 and going for NPAK-FA and MIG-29Ks, So they offered MIG-29K & KUB..

 

[HeinzGud]

Couple of bhramos and chini carrier will be at the bottom of the Indian ocean.

Can brahmos be defeated using the same tech used in Panitsar SAM system???

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Couple of bhramos and chini carrier will be at the bottom of the Indian ocean.

Only one is needed on the hull:

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Can brahmos be defeated using the same tech used in Panitsar SAM system???

You cannot take out PJ-10 Bharmos after it initiated its seeker and goes for low altitude flight, Only at ranges of 100km away its possible to detect it ....

 

[pmaitra]

Our air launched BrahMos are still not in service. I would rather have fighter jets fire these missiles than wait for the enemy ships to come within range close to our shores so that we can use BrahMos or use our ships to launch BrahMos thus making them themselves vulnerable.

 

[p2prada]

That's for sure. But I don't understand why they chose to keep the oldest one. Maybe unlike the ones that were completed in the waning years of the Soviet Union, that one had supeiror build quality

The oldest ones have the most experienced crew.

 

[The Messiah]

 

[p2prada]

What is the primary objective of the carrier??? Where will it be stationed??

With the Eastern Fleet. Bay of Bengal.

The IAC-1 will go to the western fleet.

Could it face the Chinese Varyag carrier with its su33 and stuff???........... How well it serve India if Chinese carrier enters Indian Ocean??

Naval warfare is more than just 2 types of jets fighting each other.

To answer your question, the Su-33 is a superior platform, but it depends on what the Chinese have on it compared to Russia's avionics.
The Chinese carrier will not come into the Indian Ocean until they can create a CBG. Our assets are too much in the IOR for one PLAN fleet to cope with. Similarly, we can't simply send a small taskforce of 4 ships into South China sea and expect to change the world.

J15 is not the problem waht about Su 33 why India chose MIG 29K over SU33??

Su-33 haven't been modernized. No point buying something that old. Even Russia may buy Mig-29Ks before moving to N-PAKFAs.

 

[Sridhar]

INS Vikramaditya to operate from Mumbai


The soon to be inducted Indian Aircraft Carrier, INS Vikramaditya, will be based in Mumbai and will operate under the Western Naval Command. Frontier India has learn't that a huge dry dock facility is being constructed in the Mumbai Naval Dockyard to accommodate the refurbished 44500-ton former Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. On a query from Frontier India, if Mumbai dock has the required depth to enable INS Vikramaditya to be docked in Mumbai, a naval official confirmed that the aircraft carrier can be accommodated, as it will be empty when it enters the dock.



INS Vikramaditya to operate from Mumbai - Indian Defence

 

[Galaxy]

India's Ex-Russian Aircraft Carrier Finally Nearing Sea Trials

The prototype MiG-29K (side number 311) was loaded by crane onto India's new aircraft carrier in Severodvinsk last month. The Sevmash Dockyard said that work to convert the former Russian cruiser Gorshkov is 90 percent complete.

Renamed the INS Vikramaditya, the ship is now scheduled to commence sea trials in May next year, and be commissioned by December 4, which is India's annual Navy Day. Meanwhile, the last five of the initial 16 MiG-29K/KUB production aircraft that India ordered for the new carrier are due for delivery this month. Russia donated the Gorshkov "as is" to the Indian Navy in March 2004, upon New Delhi's promise to fund her refit and modernization. The ship was re-launched in November 2008 as a through-deck carrier with a 14-degree ski ramp and three arrestor wires.

The initial contract for the ship's conversion amounted to $617 million (U.S.), excluding training and after-sales support. A long dispute between Moscow and New Delhi over escalating costs halted work for many months, before the parties agreed to a new total of $1.75 billion. With the inclusion of separate contracts on training, ground equipment and shore infrastructure installations, the grand total comes to $2 billion (U.S.). India is building a second ski-jump aircraft carrier at Cochin.

The MiG-35D demonstrator (side number 154) has been fitted with an arrestor hook and will take part in the sea trials of the Vikramaditya. It replaces two-seat MiG-29KUB side number 951, which crashed at Akhtubinsk earlier this year. Single-seat MiG-29K side number 941 will also fly in the trials, rather than the prototype aircraft now onboard. (It is one of two MiG-29Ks that flew trials on Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kutnetsov. Later, both aircraft served as demonstrators and testbeds in various MiG programs before being grounded earlier this year.)

India has ordered a second batch of 29 MiG-29Ks, worth a reported $1.5 billion.

India's Ex-Russian Aircraft Carrier Finally Nearing Sea Trials | Aviation International News

 

[IBSA]

Finally ready. Russia says will deliver the carrier until the end of 2012

 

[utubekhiladi]

Only one is needed on the hull:

is that a real picture? can you please provide me more details regarding this picture? what's exactly is happening in that pic? what's going on in there? did brahmos really sank that fishing boat?

 

[p2prada]

It was a test on a 1000 ton Petya class Frigate. It rammed through the ship and broke it in two. It went in on one side, came out the other, blew up in the middle.

Google Arnala class Corvette.

 

[utubekhiladi]

why that pic's quality is blurry and looks like the picture was taken on 1980

when did that test happened and where??

did the missile carried any explosive payload?