Aircraft Carriers: INS Vikrant

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Does anybody have CURRENT info or pictures of this vessel. Since her launch she seems to have all but vanished....a true "STEALTH" ship?? :shock: DFO
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I checked out the Indian Navy site and could find no mention about her, but Wiki says she is due for completion in December and will commence trials next year, before becoming operational in 2020.
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I just found this on-line; take your pick of answers!

"In addition, India's aircraft carrier program is undergoing its own challenges. Just last month, reports said that India would no longer commission its second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2) in the 2030-2032 timeframe as it was previously scheduled to do.

According to a report in IHS Jane’s, the delay is “due to steadily declining budgets, technological hurdles, and, above all, enduring delays by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in approving the program.”

This means India will only have one carrier for the vast majority of the foreseeable future, even though the Navy says it needs three. Since March 2017, when it decommissioned its second 23,900-ton Centaur-class carrier, the Indian Navy has only had one carrier, the 44,000-ton Kiev-class carrier INS Vikramaditya, a refurbished Soviet-era carrier.

As IHS Jane’s pointed out, INS Vikramaditya was supposed to be supplemented this year or next by India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier. Not surprisingly, this has been pushed back considerably.

Finally, last year a “highly placed source” told India’s Financial Express : “The Indian Navy’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant is scheduled to roll out from the Cochin Shipyard by 2021-23, almost eight years late.” "

So much for their "NEED" for 3 carriers..........hope the "FREE" Russian rebuilt CV holds up for them. :? DFO
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Well from the aerial shot here it looks well enough but then so did ours till they found laid excuses to scrap them and leave us naked for years ....eh Dennis . still it has to be said that the replacements are excellent but at a cost to our capability to train and man our eventual replacements
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While rummaging thru the net tonight, I found this:

"India’s First Homegrown Aircraft Carrier to Enter Sea Trials in Early 2020


India’s first domestically built aircraft carrier will begin sea trials in early 2020, according to the Indian Ministry of Defense.


By Franz-Stefan Gady

India’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the future INS Vikrant, designated Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1 (IAC-1), will enter sea trials in early 2020, the Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement following the visit of Indian Defense Secretary Sanjay Mitra to the Cochin shipyards in Kochi in southern India on July 18.

“In-house trials of ship’s systems by the Carrier Acceptance & Trials Team have already commenced and the sea trials are expected to commence by early 2020,” the MoD said. The flattop had previously been expected to commence sea trials already in 2017. (Initially, the carrier was expected to be delivered to the Indian Navy in 2014 and commissioned in 2016 or 2017.)

“[P]resently, the main propulsion plant, power generation equipment, deck machinery and auxiliary equipment have been installed and integrated on board,” the MoD statement reads. “Outfitting of various aviation equipment, navigation and communication equipment, weapons and sensors are progressing.”


However, a 2016 report published by the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) — the Indian government’s principal spending oversight body — said that the ship would only be ready for induction in 2023.

The future INS Vikrant, the lead ship of the Indian Navy’s new Vikrant-class, the first aircraft carriers to be designed and built in India under the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) program, was officially launched in August 2013 and relaunched in June 2015.

Construction of the new flattop was delayed on numerous occasions in past years mainly due to hold-ups in the procurement process, including delays in the delivery of the carrier’s gearboxes. Contractual disputes with Russia’s Rosoboronexport over the construction of the carrier’s aviation complex caused further interruptions.

As I wrote in January:


The 40,000-ton carrier will be fitted with a ski-jump assisted Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) launch systems for launching aircraft. “[The] STOBAR system imposes limits on the operational range and armament of aircraft operating from the carrier given that ski-jump takeoff and arrested carrier landings necessitate a high thrust-to-weight ratio for successful take-offs and can only be conducted with lightweight aircraft,” I explained elsewhere.

The carrier, at a length of 262 meters and a width of 60 meters, can operate up to 40 aircraft including Russian-made MiG-29K Fulcrum fighter jets the current mainstay of Indian naval aviation, Kamov Ka-31, HAL Dhruv, or Westland Sea King helicopters.

Total acquisition costs of the first-of-class Vikrant are estimated at over $4 billion. Meanwhile, the Indian MoD has still to approve plans for the acquisition of the Indian Navy’s first supercarrier, the future 65,000-ton flattop INS Vishal, the second ship of the Vikrant-class." So?????????? DFO
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Thanks for that detailed report Dennis and well done , that puts it all into perspective now , and their neighbours will breath easier no doubt ;)
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The build pace on the nu IAC seems to be moving at a snail pace...still...... :( Info is not very easy to find, but the Indians are projecting in service by late 2020. Uh-huh......DFO
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Seem's a remote likelihood from here Dennis , but there you go,..... perhaps they can produce miracles ;)
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Two interesting pics that "surfaced" today. First shows VIKRAMAFITYA in dry dock for overhaul with IAC outfitting nearby. Taken Oct., '18. Second shows IAC (VIKRANT) outfitting from water level. Progress???? ;) Maybe she will be finished before I can't build my tiny model warships anymore???????? DFO
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A "new" rather small pic has surfaced of VIKRANT still at her outfitting dock. How much "progre$$"???? DFO
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