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Actually I don't know ... also does anyone know how recent this image is? I wasn't able to find it at Google.
INS Vikrant to be commissioned by 2017: Naval chief
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Actually I don't know ... also does anyone know how recent this image is? I wasn't able to find it at Google.
I don't think the ship can sail by its own under such condition...
Seems like no Indian comment on the state of their own carrier or even update?
When missed dateline, these Indian will went into hiding and avoid talking about it. But just when their carrier has some little thing to boast, they will come out of nowhere and do those chest thumping...
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The ship has started harbour trails. Means It's engines were already alighted, moved and tested. I think may 12 was the deadline for it to be taken for limited sea testing. So we are well past it and due to lockdown she had missed it.
The ship had already moved in its own power already.
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Why does it look rusted? And the lifts radar are not installed? How do you do seatrials when so many are not completed?
In others words another fake news by Indian. By this year, this ship is not possible to go for sea trial. Never mind, they will blame it on covid-19.
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The "commissioning" of India’s second aircraft carrier has been delayed till September 2021? But it has not yet gone out for sea trial.
It’s only after IAC-I gets "commissioned" in September 2021 now, and is christened INS Vikrant, that the “flight trials” will be launched to make the carrier fully operational by 2022-2023.
Navy keen on 3rd aircraft carrier to retain edge over China, even as 2nd delayed yet again
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The commissioning of India’s second aircraft carrier has been delayed till September next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. While reconciling to this setback, the Navy remains all the more keen to push its case for a third aircraft carrier as well as two new fighter squadrons to counter China’s expanding footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
As the US recently displayed in the South China Sea, much to China’s discomfort, nothing projects raw combat power like an aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) capable of moving over 500 nautical miles (900 km) in a single day.
But India, which has currently deployed the bulk of its warships and submarines in the IOR to send a clear signal to Beijing, is in danger of losing its decisive edge over China in the CSG arena.
Sources say the “basin trials” of the first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-I) being built at the Cochin Shipyard, which would have checked the 40,000-tonne warship’spropulsion, transmission and shafting systems, have been derailed by the pandemic.
The basin trials of IAC-I, first sanctioned by the government way back in January 2003, are to be followed by extensive sea trials. It’s only after IAC-I gets commissioned in September 2021 now, and is christened INS Vikrant, that the “flight trials” will be launched to make the carrier fully operational by 2022-2023.
The continuing delay in IAC-I, being constructed for Rs 22,590 crore, comes when China already has two aircraft carriers, while two more are being frenetically constructed. With the eventual aim to have a 10-carrier Navy by 2050, China is expected to begin deploying a CSG in the IOR within the next few years to take care of its “Malacca Dilemma”.
https://www.defenceaviationpost.com/
It’s only after IAC-I gets "commissioned" in September 2021 now, and is christened INS Vikrant, that the “flight trials” will be launched to make the carrier fully operational by 2022-2023.
Navy keen on 3rd aircraft carrier to retain edge over China, even as 2nd delayed yet again
2 days ago
0 72 1 minute read
The commissioning of India’s second aircraft carrier has been delayed till September next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. While reconciling to this setback, the Navy remains all the more keen to push its case for a third aircraft carrier as well as two new fighter squadrons to counter China’s expanding footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
As the US recently displayed in the South China Sea, much to China’s discomfort, nothing projects raw combat power like an aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) capable of moving over 500 nautical miles (900 km) in a single day.
But India, which has currently deployed the bulk of its warships and submarines in the IOR to send a clear signal to Beijing, is in danger of losing its decisive edge over China in the CSG arena.
Sources say the “basin trials” of the first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-I) being built at the Cochin Shipyard, which would have checked the 40,000-tonne warship’spropulsion, transmission and shafting systems, have been derailed by the pandemic.
The basin trials of IAC-I, first sanctioned by the government way back in January 2003, are to be followed by extensive sea trials. It’s only after IAC-I gets commissioned in September 2021 now, and is christened INS Vikrant, that the “flight trials” will be launched to make the carrier fully operational by 2022-2023.
The continuing delay in IAC-I, being constructed for Rs 22,590 crore, comes when China already has two aircraft carriers, while two more are being frenetically constructed. With the eventual aim to have a 10-carrier Navy by 2050, China is expected to begin deploying a CSG in the IOR within the next few years to take care of its “Malacca Dilemma”.
https://www.defenceaviationpost.com/
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Not gonna happen with COVID around. Not to mention because the engine and radars and guns and missiles are imported from US and Israel and Italy and they are heavily shut down by COVID India will not be receiving the engine and radars and guns and missiles from US and Israel and Italy this year which means they ship can't be built this year anyway.
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A ship that can never be commissioned, must a world record by now.
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It takes them 13+++ years to build one carrier with almost all imported parts, half of the steel is imported btw.
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There hasn't been any progress on this ship since 2013. So the answer is a definite no.
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I guess they can apply for The Guinness World Records
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