The Russkies under bid us again? Why aren’t we making them for export?
Well, gosh, golly! Why didn’t President You Didn’t Build That just sell the Indian navy the new Gerald Ford aircraft carrier? After all, it’s not needed, is it?
The Indian Navy is becoming serious players/allies in both the warfare against the Pirates on the high seas and more importantly against the expanding Chinese Asian sphere...
If you like your carrier, you can keep your carrier. Period....President Putin
Why does this ship remind me of Bob Hope?
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I can’t tell. Does that ship have a catapult system? A curved catapult system would seem tricky to engineer. If not, it seems they would need to whole deck to launch and thereby, the whole deck to recover. No staging of planes.
I want to know how it works (more than planes take off, planes land....).
I’m okay with the Indians having a more expansive navy. They are a strange wild card in the global community. They aren’t for the West, they aren’t for the Middle East, and they aren’t for China. India is for India. In the case that tensions get worse between the US and the ME or China, they are a nice stress point to keep them looking over their shoulder.
That’s some serious uplift at the end of that takeoff runway.
Is that going to slow them down at a point when they really need the speed?
“inducted into”
The term is “commissioned.”
Interesting that both China and India have just recently commissioned their first real aircraft carriers...
A subtle arms race...?
If they get one of these they should call it a "Virmana"....