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2009-02-28 India-Pakistan

Work begins on India's first home built aircraft carrier

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Posted by john frum 2009-02-28 05:59|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Is this like when Homer Simpson tried to build an aircraft carrier? Because that was funny.

Posted by gromky 2009-02-28 06:36|| 2009-02-28 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Humble beginnings. Anyone remember the chain-drive Honda coupe?

Posted by gorb 2009-02-28 06:59|| 2009-02-28 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 In other news, here is the INS Viraat (formerly HMS Hermes) under repair in Kochi (Cochin), Kerala

Posted by john frum 2009-02-28 07:06|| 2009-02-28 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 India probably has more engineers and scientists than USA, gromky. Plus, an ace up their sleeve.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-28 07:10|| 2009-02-28 07:10|| Front Page Top

#5 artist's impression of the home built Indian carrier (INS Vikrant)

Posted by john frum 2009-02-28 07:24|| 2009-02-28 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 According to the Indian journalist Shiv Aroor

But it is now clear that while Cochin Shipyards will build three aircraft carriers in the current 37,500-ton category (the second and third are to be christened INS Viraat and INS Vishaal apparently), design work has already begun in earnest to develop and build two more aircraft carriers with not only much larger displacements, but possibly nuclear propulsion as well.

Posted by john frum 2009-02-28 07:26|| 2009-02-28 07:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Not much into the navy, ships and the like but it would appear a bow approach is out of the question? :(

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-28 07:33|| 2009-02-28 07:33|| Front Page Top

#8 An aircraft carrier is just a huge target for modern antiship missiles. I've no idea why developing nations insist on building them - useless white elephants.

Posted by gromky 2009-02-28 09:57|| 2009-02-28 09:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Because they're extraordinarily useful for power projection. Nothing like a floating air base you put where you want it.

Posted by Steve White 2009-02-28 12:07|| 2009-02-28 12:07|| Front Page Top

#10 An aircraft carrier is just a huge target for modern antiship missiles. I've no idea why developing nations insist on building them - useless white elephants.

Well, the anti-missile defenses we have prove you wrong. It takes a massive force with a massive launch to get past the defensive screen nowdays. The soviets could afford the ships, planes and missiles. The Chinese can, but other nations can't. So, they can fire a couple of anti-ship missiles at a carrier, watch them get shot down, and then have enemy planes bombing your coast anyway.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-02-28 13:13|| 2009-02-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 How many anti-missile missiles does an aircraft carrier carry?

Posted by gorb 2009-02-28 14:51|| 2009-02-28 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Depends. Its escorts carry a lot of them.

Posted by Pappy 2009-02-28 15:00|| 2009-02-28 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the Arleigh Burke class DDGs carry 36 Patriots and 64 Sea Sparrows each. Most CVNx are equipped with Phalanx and Sea Sparrow for close-in defense.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-28 16:52|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#14 And remember the Western doctrine about carrier escorts : when they run out of defensive missiles, the destroyers literally put themselves in the path of the oncoming missiles aimed at the carrier. The Navy figures that destroyers, cruisers, and frigates are much more replaceable that carriers.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-02-28 16:59|| 2009-02-28 16:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Aircraft carriers are very vulnerable and i can count by the fingers in one of my hands that number of times a missile was intercepted in War by an anti-missile. So anti-missile is not a proven technology. Now aircrafts carriers are also the best ships to protect and project( or better put less worse).

Indian ship is based in Italian Conte Di Cavour
http://digilander.libero.it/shinano/Italia/Conte%20di%20Cavour/foto.htm

Posted by Large Snerong7311 2009-02-28 19:15|| 2009-02-28 19:15|| Front Page Top

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