INS Vikramaditya (Adm Gorshkov) aircraft carrier

[DaTang]

I have a feeling that tower has more to do with EW than other things.

For landing you need optical devices and not radar.

The Fresnel lens based system is used by the landing officer to guide the aircraft on the deck. It is called Fresnel Optical landing system.

With 2.8 billion dollars, you could very well use this amount of money to build 2 brand new ones of your own......

 

[pmaitra]

With 2.8 billion dollars, you could very well use this amount of money to build 2 brand new ones of your own......

1.4 billion dollars for one AC? Perhaps, but that doesn't include costs of setting up infrastructure, and then, you have time and experience.

 

[DaTang]

1.4 billion dollars for one AC? Perhaps, but that doesn't include costs of setting up infrastructure, and then, you have time and experience.

Hire their engineers and skilled technicians, teach your ship builders to build( not to buy) a ship.

 

[pmaitra]

Hire their engineers and skilled technicians, teach your ship builders to build( not to buy) a ship.

You have a point there.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

India is not only purchasing one, But making two in her yards too..

 

[Kunal Biswas]

INS Vikramaditya ( Lost Pics during her Construction )

 

[Kunal Biswas]

 

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[Kunal Biswas]

Crew quarters..

 

[Kunal Biswas]

From Cockpit of Russian MIG-29K while landing on Vikramaditya..

 

[Ankit Purohit]

Amazing pics ,how they controlled the jet while landing on aircraft carrier

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Some Good Vids On INS Vikramaditya..

 

[pmaitra]

Btw, your earlier comment on TAVKR is wrong. TAVKR stands for Tyazholyy AVianesushchiy raketnyy KReyser which means Heavy Aircraft carrying Cruiser, nothing to do with Tactical or Strategic.

Kiev never carried the Su-33, only the Kuznetsov did.

This Soviet documentary says that Baku, aka Gorshkov, was a TAVKR, and there is no 'raketnyy' in the taxonomy.


So one source claims Baku was a Heavy Aviation Cruiser, and the other one, a Tactical Aviation Cruiser.

Rather confusing.

 

[pmaitra]

^^

And to add to the confusion, Baku was also, allegedly, called a Submarine Intercepting Cruiser. Dang!

 

[RedDragon]

As a carrier, I thinks the station is too center on the body, why not move it to the side in the refurb. Cost too much?

 

[pmaitra]

As a carrier, I thinks the station is too center on the body, why not move it to the side in the refurb. Cost too much?

Already discussed. It is not in the centre. It is already to the side.

 

[sayareakd]

As a carrier, I thinks the station is too center on the body, why not move it to the side in the refurb. Cost too much?

if you have paid attention to the thread, then you can see that station is no where near that landing area.
infact main island is close then the station. Pics here are not posted for fun, it meant to educate others, if you can not observe then what is point of posting such stupid posts and wasting our time in answering these questions.

as far as underline part is concern that is must be due to fact that China has never operated AC before that is why all sorts of doubts in your mind. Well it comes with experience and carrier is not something which you can master in one or two years, it require lot of time to make it well operating machine.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Why you think about the cost ? look at the history of this modernization, Money was never a concern, India pays..

But this design is for balance, It has been dicussed already at page 64 :
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...maditya-adm-gorshkov-aircraft-carrier-64.html

As a carrier, I thinks the station is too center on the body, why not move it to the side in the refurb. Cost too much?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Close look at Baku :

Vikramaditya have crane which load supplies and goods to the deck also puts cargo behind the baku..