Government targets to deliver India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier by 2018 end

[aanshu001]

India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant is on its way to be delivered to the Navy in December, 2018,
government said on Friday.Undocked in June this year at Cochin Shipyard Limited, the construction of the first
of the two planned Vikrantclass
future aircraft carrier began in 2008 .
Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for defence Rao Inderjit Singh said that there has been a
delay in the work of constructing the carrier mainly due to nonavailability
of warship grade steel, delayed
ordering of Propulsion System Integration and delay in Russian approvals for design and equipment supply.
“The targeted date of delivery to Indian Navy is December, 2018,” he said.
The indigenous aircraft carrier has been undocked post completion of underwater structural work and the
government has approved revision of cost of project to Rs.19,341 Crores, the minister added.
Once completed, the 40,000 tonne aircraft, which has been designed by Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval
Design, will make India join the coveted club of the USA, UK, France and Russia – the only countries that
design and make these ships on their own.
India currently operates two aircraft carriers, INS Viraat and INS Vikramaditya.

Published December 6, 2015
SOURCE: DNA INDIA

 

[aanshu001]

Government targets to deliver India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier by 2018 end |

 

[Cyberian]

Is India looking to have 4 aircrafts in total or are the new ones going to replace the current two?

 

[sankranti]

Bloody Hell, that is 3 more years. A total of 10 years to build a 40 k Ton Ship. A new Record ?

 

[AMCA]

Is India looking to have 4 aircrafts in total or are the new ones going to replace the current two?

India is officially looking out to operate two Aircraft carriers and one Super carrier by 2030.

1.INS Vikramaditya
2.INS Vikrant
3.INS Vishal

 

[Abingdonboy]

Bloody Hell, that is 3 more years. A total of 10 years to build a 40 k Ton Ship. A new Record ?

"date of delivery" suggests this would be after completion of sea trails. Bear in mind this is (by far) that largest warship ever deisgned and built in India, the first of its class and at least 2 years of delays were incurred when a road accident wrote off the gearboxes meant for this ship.

All the lessons learnt would be applied to hasten any such production in the future. Look at the P-17s, they took 6-7 years the first time around now the P-17As will take just 60 months to build despite being larger and more advanced. The same is true for the P-15Bs vis a vis the P-15As.

 

[sankranti]

"date of delivery" suggests this would be after completion of sea trails. Bear in mind this is (by far) that largest warship ever deisgned and built in India, the first of its class and at least 2 years of delays were incurred when a road accident wrote off the gearboxes meant for this ship.

All the lessons learnt would be applied to hasten any such production in the future. Look at the P-17s, they took 6-7 years the first time around now the P-17As will take just 60 months to build despite being larger and more advanced. The same is true for the P-15Bs vis a vis the P-15As.

And yet you continue to claim that INS Vishal will be ready in 15 years ? or is it 10 ?

 

[anant_s]

10 years (counting from 2008) is certainly not bad a figure for a country trying to build a ship this scale.
I'm sure the experience will help in constructing and commissioning larger AC like IAC 2 (Vishal).
Here is btw how vikrant is looking these days

 

[Mirza Jatt]

Hope they do it by 2018. Good luck

 

[Abingdonboy]

And yet you continue to claim that INS Vishal will be ready in 15 years ? or is it 10 ?

Work on INS Vishal will begin in late 2016/early 2017 with a targetted date for sea trails in 2023/4. 7 or so years to build a 65,000 ton carrier is not even remotely ambitious for a ship-building industry at the level of maturity as India's. That said, if the INS Vishal is to be nuclear powered this may add time to construction and so may stretch to 8-9 years for the first of class vessel- all follow on ships of the class will have contracted build times.

 

[Srinivas]

we need to build Nuke carriers and cruisers !

More powerful and lethal.

P17 and p15 do not look as stealthy as the western battle ships.

 

[Abingdonboy]

10 years (counting from 2008) is certainly not bad a figure for a country trying to build a ship this scale.
I'm sure the experience will help in constructing and commissioning larger AC like IAC 2 (Vishal).
Here is btw how vikrant is looking these days
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10 years is a highly dubious figure anyway @anant_s sir because that seems to be when the ship will be commisioned (and thus sea trails complete). Even factoring in the considerable time lost for the gearbox accident and that this is a first of its kind (not only class) vessel built in India- this is not a bad job at all.

 

[anant_s]

Even factoring in the considerable time lost for the gearbox accident and that this is a first of its kind (not only class) vessel built in India- this is not a bad job at all.

oh absolutely not. infact when we consider the delays we'll find that SAIL is now able to deliver the ship grade steel, the mammoth gearboxes design casting, fabrication, machining and testing is now mastered by Indian Engineering companies and lot of other small details are now in grasp of Indian industry makes the wait worthwhile.
One more thing handling of such huge modules will also assist in developing next generation Destroyers and cruisers and who knows we may start designing and building our own Landing Helicopter Docks in not very distant future. There are a lot of unseen gains from this project and i'm sure we will have their benefits in future for Indian Navy.

 

[gslv mk3]

I envy Kochi citizens....

 

[anant_s]

Is India looking to have 4 aircrafts in total or are the new ones going to replace the current two?

As far as actual fleet and committed budget is concerned, right now INS Vikramaditya is part of fleet, IAC 1 (INS Vikrant) will join sometime in 2018-19 and funding is cleared for a 65-70,000 Ton IAC 2 (INS Vishal), which is a flat deck AC.
Simultaneously INS Viraat is slated to be retired in a couple of years from now. So by 2025-30 IN should have 3 ACs for sure. Beyond that will depend on funding.