The Paper, a news website run by a state media group in Shanghai, described the Indian carrier as an "incomplete" platform because it had yet to launch or recover any fighter aircraft.
Interesting that the article suggests that India has almost as many “war ships” as it does aircraft. I imagine that those war ships are mostly small, coastal patrol craft.
Anything that keeps the Chinese worried is a plus.
Another enemy, arming themselves, likely with lots of stolen intellectual knowledge from the United States
Is it still possible to defend a carrier?
Good for India. Hopefully the urgency created by China’s impending expansion will hasten India’s glacial procurement process.
A serious military decision would spend the money on artillery and drones.
(land based artillery is 60-80 percent of ALL casualties in a peer war. That is, land based artillery is bigger than all other weapons systems combined.)
Does India’s Russian built ship have to be towed around by tugs and belch black smoke?
Aging and decrepit grandpa and grandma Han, who increasingly make up the majority of the ChiComm population, shook their canes and cried “foul” at the news.
That’ll look good tooling up the Ganges.