CGI of the VikrantNo way to defend itself. No fleet to defend it or tactical plan to coordinate defense. Sounds like a big target.
Building and operating large fleet carriers requires a demanding set of technical, organizational, and operational skills. Although the Indians are a capable and energetic people, their civilian and military bureaucracies are notoriously slow, corrupt, and incompetent. US help will likely be unavailing against such obstacles, with the US ending up resented as a meddling foreign know-it-all. The one possible remedy might be to use Indian-American engineers able to deflect such resentments.
In the age of satellites, stealthy drones and supersonic missiles, almost all surface warships, despite their defensive weapons are floating coffins of obsolescence. If a ship can be seen, sensed or monitored, it can be sunk. A junior Chinese officer with a joystick, sitting in a fortified bunker can destroy more ships than in fifteen minutes than anyone would care to imagine. Consider the advent of stealthy “seagull” drones. Less than 300 cm, packed with C4 explosive,launched over 200 miles from target by missile or submarine, an entire flock directed to target by that Chinese junior officer.
The Indian navy is far bigger and better equipped than the Royal Navy. In the piracy wars its fighting spirit is very aggressive and not passive like we see in western navies. And essentially it is for the areas around India and not meant for worldwide deployment. So it is more concentrated.