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rafiqali
bro...don't talk bullsh!t..India has a huge coastline to cover.and Carrier fleet always comes handy for fleet defence.you can't rely on other country for defence,right???Every Arm needs their own Air Fleet to cover their strength.e.g.,we've a decent airforce.but then why IA is inducting their own helo fleet??just for autonomy.India has an ambition to become Blue water navy.also,it is particularly needed when we've a huge numbers of islands to cover.you're assuming that southern air fleet can even bomb the Karachi harbour without breaking a sweat.on paper,its true.but what happen if they already wiped out several hundreds of aircraft of IA in preemptive strike??how IAF is going to provide cover for IN??you donot even understand the concept of Air Defence Ship,yet making huge noises..no wonder you'll be tagged as a troll.you're a newbie here.try to read Senior Members' posts than engaging in futile argument.
as for fund redirection on other projects,we're not short of funds.we've huge number of obsolete hardware to replace.for that,time will be needed.if you try to know how many induction projects are going on simultaneously,you'll get a heart attack.its not like we yell "Submarine",and there will be Submarine.it'll take around 8 years to make a Sub,around 10 years to make a Aircraft Carrier,around 15-20 years to develop and induct an Aircraft,around 7-10 years to make a new tank.yelling that we don't have this or we don't have that willn't help.what do you think,those who are command of these forces are fool??they're far too practical than you'll ever know..
I advice you to read others post than making a mess in this thread,also advising not to quote chinese members here..they're well known for trolling.
Unfortunately, your condescending and faux expert tone is not supported by the sophomoric quality of your response. And why does it rile you so much if one strikes a discordant note amongst your cheer leading orgy. This is a defense form, which means that matters strategic should be discussed here rather than mutual admiration man oeuvres.
I can largely assess that while you may be sound on the tech aspects of armaments, your appreciation of matters strategic approaches zero. Are you from the Defense Forces, because the Boy's Toys disease is pretty rampant there.
And you have added a few more to the confusion wrought by the earlier posters. According to you ACs are needed for --
1. India's coastal defense
2. India's island defense
This is of course in addition to protection of India's trade lanes, and Blue Water ambition the reasons for which were expected to be so self evident that asking for reasons has been considered sacrilage.
Your claims for Coastal and Island defense are so absurd that I will not even bother refuting them. If the IN thinks so, it will be a first, a unique paradigm. Use an AC as a dance floor for all I care, but the international paradigm is for its use as a floating military city, an offensive and deterrent projection of power. Of course my queries about use of such platform in the IOC has merely been responded by obfuscations.
And which shipping lanes do you protect? The major ones go around the Straits of Hormuz, the Cape of Good Hope and the straits of Malacca. These are international lanes, and cargo is carried by ships flying non -Indian flags, mostly Panama. Nothing to protect here, and if you try to block them, expect a good whacking from other nations including the US.
So the only place where India specific cargo filters is inside the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Which means that the AC will be around the Indian coast. If local lanes are the ones to be protected, I m sure land based airfields can do it as well, or better. In fact, far from needing protection, A&N is actually a series of unsinkable ACs which can cover the straits of Malacca as well as a lot of IOC. Read about Malta in WW-II?
As for the desire of navy to have its own AF, we do not pander to expensive desires unless there are clear strategic advantages. You mean that navies without AC, including Japan and China have no protection against air attacks.
