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Indian Navy to acquire three aircraft carriers in 5-7 years: Defence Minister Antony

NEW DELHI: Progressing towards self-reliance in the defence industry, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier will be in the waters by 2011, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said Wednesday.

The under-construction aircraft carrier will be ready in two years.

"Our indigenous aircraft carrier is being constructed in Kochi. It has been three years since the work started. On Feb 28, what we call keel laying of the carrier will take place," Mehta told reporters here.

The building of a ship can be divided into seven phases: design, construction planning, work prior to keel laying, ship erection, launching, final outfitting, and sea trials.

"Many of the parts have already been constructed. My estimate is that it should be in the water in two years," Mehta said.

The aircraft carrier is expected to have 40,000 tonne displacement capacity at an estimated cost of Rs.3,000 crore (Rs.30 billion).

The Indian Navy is currently operating only one full deck aircraft carrier, the INS Viraat, also the only one being operated by a country in Asia or Western Pacific. In a bid to become a true-blue water navy, the Indian Navy is expected to operate three aircraft carriers by 2015.

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..:: India Strategic ::.. Indian Navy's Aircraft Carriers
 
In 2004, India bought the Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Gorshkov for the equivalent of US$1.5 billion. It will cost an additional US$1.5 billion to refit, and is expected to join the Indian Navy in 2012 as INS Vikramaditya. A further US$700 million will be spent to purchase 12 single-seat MiG-29K and four dual-seat MiG-29KUB fighters, six Kamov-31 attack and reconnaissance anti-submarine helicopters; also included are training facilities for pilots and technical staff, delivery of simulators and spare parts, and establishment and maintenance of Indian Navy facilities. Upgrades include removing missiles from the carrier foredeck to make way for a 14.3-degree ski-jump.[155] The Mig-29's will be delivered to the Indian Navy in 2009.[156]

In April 2007, India began construction of a 40,000 tonne Vikrant class aircraft carrier at a cost of US$800 million and scheduled to operate 30 aircraft, including Naval LCA,[157] MiG-29K, and Sea Harrier combat aircraft, as well as HAL Dhruv, Ka-31, and Sea King Mk.42 helicopters. Four turbine engines will power the ship. The carrier is being constructed by state-run Cochin Shipyard Limited.[158] and will be commissioned by 2012-13. The Indian Minister of State for Defence, Pallam Raju, went on record in September 2006 stating that the aircraft carrier is likely to be commissioned by 2011.[159] There are plans to build more aircraft carriers domestically.[160]
 
India to buy British-made large aircraft carriers will become the world’s second
18th of this month, the Indian aircraft carrier “virrat” was held a service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ceremony. However, the Indian Navy’s fleet of “virrat” aircraft has been seriously aging, India built its own aircraft carrier still faces many technical difficulties and short-term difficult to serve in a converted aircraft carrier from Russia dragging its feet. In this case, India plans to invest two billion pounds to buy the British-built super-aircraft carriers, while reducing the financial pressure on the British Ministry of Defense. India can not buy the carrier? After the purchase of this aircraft carrier, to the Indian Navy would be what kind of impact?
India to buy aircraft carrier used to confront China threat?
16, issued a report in India Daily: India sees opportunities in the United Kingdom is built Elizabeth-class super aircraft carrier, just reduce the British defense spending constraints, to prepare plans to buy the original cut to a level of Elizabeth. In this way, an aircraft carrier under construction is likely to sell. In addition, India to buy aircraft carrier, will be mainly used to combat the threat of China in the Indian Ocean.
In fact, the Indian Navy aircraft carrier in the development of recent years has indeed run into a lot of Gou Gou Kankam, India, the existing one aircraft carrier, is very old, and had just spent a 50-year-old birthday. We are more familiar with this aircraft carrier, virrat number, is a British navy has been involved in the competitive spirit Falklands War aircraft carrier, is 28 thousand tons of a small aircraft carrier.
After this, the Indian Navy and from Russia, bought an aircraft carrier, under construction in the course of construction, India is building an aircraft carrier itself, and now offered to buy the British ship super-carrier. It can be seen, the Indian Navy aircraft carrier combat force for development is very anxious, but also spared no effort.
Another said the news that the Indian side said that the purchase of new aircraft carrier will be used mainly to combat the threat of China in the Indian Ocean. This argument is purely non-existent. Because China’s navy has also entered the Indian Ocean did not fight the trend, but India itself is a special liking for the Indian Ocean. In India’s national development strategy which, in the hope the Indian Ocean into a real Indian ocean.
Now, the Indian Ocean, the largest presence of U.S. naval forces, so that the new carrier with the ship, to fight the so-called China threat, it should be an Indian media rhetoric. In fact, the carrier has little to do with China. Because of its main combat area in the Indian Ocean, from the next term, it should not be the main target of the Chinese Navy. If the balance of power from the sea view, it should be the main target of the U.S. military presence in the Indian Ocean.
Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are called super-carrier?
Elizabeth-class designed and built by the British Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, one, and its displacement is 65,000 tons. This displacement should be second only to the United States is the world’s largest aircraft carrier Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, and the architectural design of the British Navy has always been the standard is relatively high, so the British aircraft carrier in the planning of their own future development, when the carrier exceeds the design specifications The new French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is level, so ship 65,000 tons of the carrier, either from a head, or from its overall technological level, have reached a very high level. From its operational capability terms, second only to the U.S. super aircraft carrier.
The carrier uses a lot of new technology, because of its design time is relatively late, is said to be using two ship Road configuration, but deck equipped with catapults, that is, the heavier jet aircraft can take-off operations aircraft, the British Navy are primarily designed configuration of the F35 is the American type of fourth generation aircraft carrier, while the British Navy in accordance with the original design configuration, it can be configured two E2C early warning aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier as a whole, a very high standard . To get this aircraft carrier, to the Indian Navy is concerned, is a leap of things.
One is that those with the aircraft carrier, even if the existing fleet of virrat number retired, India can still have three aircraft carriers in service, with three in-service aircraft carrier, that is, apart from the United States after the second child of. Leap second change is that although India had been equipped with an aircraft carrier, but the equipment has always been a small aircraft carrier, the configuration of the carrier-based aircraft are also basically take off and land vertically, and there is no fixed-wing of the early warning aircraft. Once introduced Elizabeth class, then the Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier Admiral can be configured to the latest jet fighters, but also can configure the carrier-based aircraft, this configuration the standard will enable the Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier to reach a fighting force the world’s second level, so The news caused a lot of people’s attention.
Buy Elizabeth-class super aircraft carriers are a blessing or a curse?
Some people may say is a curse is a blessing this argument a bit too much, because the purchase of the carrier will make the Indian Navy’s fighting force at sea appears leap-style change, which is of course a good thing for India, but in fact may not be. Because now Elizabeth class aircraft carrier is in the construction of which, but the carrier certainly not cheap. Therefore, for India to buy the carrier, there are many risks.
From my personal analysis, the biggest risk is the construction, equipment and life cycle issues. Aircraft carrier under construction, the real delivery may have to wait until few years later, this period may at any time be some turn of events. This is before the India to buy Russian aircraft carrier in the process once there have been many changes in his. It is said that in order to buy Russian aircraft carrier in India spent a lot of money wasted so far have not seen the carrier into the Indian Navy’s prospects. Similarly, the British aircraft carrier the existence of such risks.
Second, from the said funds, in accordance with the present report, the United Kingdom expressed the hope that not less than 2 billion pounds to sell the carrier, this is not a small sum, equivalent to about 40 billion U.S. dollars down, this is just a hull . If the British Navy in accordance with the original standards, it is filled and with F-35 carrier-based fighter, E2C early warning aircraft carrier, the total cost will reach 100 billion U.S. dollars, the cost of India’s defense spending for the future is not a small burden on .
Third, the carrier supporting operational risk. Now the carrier platform, from the United Kingdom, according to the United Kingdom was originally designed for carrier-based aircraft are F-35, F-35 is produced by the United States, E2C early warning aircraft carrier is also produced by the United States, which there is a big risk, the United Kingdom is willing to sell the aircraft carrier, then the United States’s willingness to incorporate the most advanced four-generation carrier-based early-warning planes and sell India? This is probably Yaoda a big question mark. And what time to get ship-borne aircraft, carrier-based aircraft price is the amount of future use of these carrier-based aircraft maintenance and repair work on how to complete, which are considerable risks.
As we have just mentioned, the current strength of the Indian Ocean should be the largest offshore U.S. Navy, and now India need to build a very terrible sea power, then what is the attitude of the United States would be India? In this context, whether the United States will conduct a comprehensive package aboard the British aircraft carrier, in particular, by providing the most advanced carrier-based computer technology, I am afraid there are still considerable uncertainties. So for the Indian Navy is hard to say now is a curse or a blessing, they might very likely there will be a huge “fishing projects.”
Around the world, apart from some big countries, the India is also the most active aircraft carriers of the country, it is also very concerned. This shows that the aircraft carrier in the future pillars of the status of naval warfare, but also indicated that a growing number of countries expressed hope that the operational platforms to make their sea power to be leaps and bounds. But we history of aircraft carriers from the Indian point of view, if he could not grasp the carrier’s core technologies, including carrier-based aircraft of the core technology, even with the advanced aircraft carrier, will be controlled by others, and even become a huge burden, and even a bottomless pit.
So, for developing countries, with aircraft carriers, better well-established intellectual property rights, the only way the carrier of this high-performance, high prices, a huge combat platform, and can really play to their capability.
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we don't have plan to buy 3 aircraft carriers.

from my point of view, further upgrading our infrastructure, such as our civic airports and roads in rural areas, keep spending on our education reform, keep investing in health care are better than aircraft carriers.

and I also know that 3 aircraft carriers are not going to make india safer. clearly the biggest enemy in the short to mid term is from those domestic freedom fights who are seeking independence.
Agreed but 3 carrier force was always IN's plan for West, east and South naval commands. Separatists can be crushed with sheer force in one Emergency decision like what Indira Gandhi did in 70s.

Too bad they don't make PMs like that anymore...
 
Yes..I am afraid that only can be the case. No way we can make IAC-II in 7 years and induct it..I guess IAC-II will have to wait till 2025 now and most probably will be super-carrier..

I also think that they are talking about IAC2, because it was reported often before that MoD/IN plans with it by 2017/18.

...In a bid to boost its blue-water credentials, the Navy is expected to operate three aircraft carriers by 2017. It is acquiring the Kiev-class Admiral Gorshkov (renamed INS Vikramaditya) from Russia and is planning a 50,000-tonne IAC 2 with CATOBAR (Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery) capability. CATOBAR will help IAC 2 to launch conventional aircraft. Only three countries have CATOBAR-capable carriers—the US (Nimitz class super-carriers and USS Enterprise), France (Charles de Gaulle) and Brazil (Sao Paulo).

Senior Navy officers said the order for IAC 2 was likely to be placed in 2010, after the launch of the first carrier. “The fate of IAC 2 will be decided by the performance of the first carrier,” said a senior Navy officer. On its part, Cochin Shipyard is using a modular approach to reduce construction time on IAC. If all goes well, after the initial launch the carrier will spend a year in the refit dock where all major components and underwater fittings would be fixed. Then it would be relaunched for outfitting...

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Regarding the Brithish carrier, their PM stated that both carrier will be build, but they probably use only one of them as a real aircraft carrier with fighters and use the other one as an helicopter carrier (possibly to add F35Bs later again). So unless we make them a good offer, they might keep them and with the goal of IN to build more and more indigenous vessels, I have some doubts that they will pay for it.
However, here are some latest models of the PA2 carrier, the French CATOBAR design of the British QE2 carrier:

Rafale News: DCNS Rxx aircraft carrier proposal
 
May be we are going to buy the UK's Aircraft Carrier?? Could this be the third AC he is talking about??

There was a news about this in The Guardian but tafter that nothing else. Above all defence secretary ruled out that India is or will consider the QE for buying.

So it might be the IAC-2. If they start construction from next year it is not possible to have it by 2017.
 

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