Boeing says Super Hornet fully compatible with IN ski jump carriers

Its must be music to the ears of the faithfuls.

Untill the STO facility was ready at Goa, every single manufacturer were claiming that they can successfully do a ski ramp take off. And now, when it is ready, no one is coming forth with their aircraft to show it off.

The first promo instance was that of E-2 able to operate from VKD.
Then came Rafale, F-18s.

Now that STO facility is operational (for quite a few years), rather than advertise ski ramp capablity through media, just demonstrate it making use of the excellent STO facility at Goa.

The French could have avoided a lot of media promo hardwork for Rafale, if they had just demonstrated Rafales ski ramp capability at STO during the recently concluded Indo-French exercises.

The benchmark could be the 5,500Kg payload capability the MiG-29K/KUB demonstrated from the decks of VKD during trials.