... carrier vessels have sailed under the Indian Navy flag. Currently two aircraft carriers, the INS Vikramaditya and the INS Vikrant, are part of the Indian naval fleet. With the exception of the recently commissioned and locally built INS Vikrant, all Indian aircraft carriers have been purchased from foreign sources as refurbished second-hand vessels.
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India’s first aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, was former HMS Hercules carrier of Royal Navy. It was purchased by India in 1961 from Great ...
... was intended as a substitute for the INS Vikrant, while the second was to replace Viraat in the mid-2000s. The construction of the first ship was planned for the Cochin Shipyard in 1993, but by 1991, the Committee on Defense Expenditure informed the Indian Navy that it would abandon plans for large aircraft carriers and shift the focus to the Italian Garibaldi Class, known as one of the world's smallest aircraft carriers with 10,000 tons standard and 13,850 tons total displacement.
Indian admirals circled the wagons, because the idea of deploying ...
... maintain so powerful a navy. Other maritime powers have been deprived of these factors. Some countries, such as the UK, lack the political will to actively expand their fleet. Others, like Russia, lack the required resources. And others, such as China, India and Turkey, lack the requisite modern technology.
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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Economic development, the spread of relatively cheap and simple naval technologies, as well as acute competition in the global shipbuilding market all ...
... on the Crimean Peninsula, now Ukraine, which seems to be in terminal decline. Due to the Ukrainian leaders’ vacillation on cooperation in the defense-sector, Russia, NITKA’s main user, has launched construction on its own complex, as have India and China, who also have Soviet-built aircraft carriers.
Inter-Slavic Dispute
NITKA was put into service in August 1982, when the facility’s ramp was first used to ski-jump a T-10K, the prototype for the SU27K carrier-based fighter, later mass produced as SU-33. Until the late 1980s,...
