The V-22 AEW will be perfect for CVF but seems a tad too big for ADS. If ADS can carry 3 then it would be perfect.

Wrong again. Vik carries more aircrafts and can provide a more meaningful all around defense than cavour. Assuming 16 JSf’s on both Cavour can only carry 8 more helicopters. While Vik can carry 14 which lets it have a compliment of 8 ASW and 6 AEW choppers. Neither of the ships is a remote match for CVF or American super carriers but a decent AEW and ASW capability on vik would place it higher than cavour in my books.

Yes but I am talking about IAC being built in Italy. It would surely cost IN a lot more than Gorky purchase or current IAC. The cavour is always going to be less capable than Gorky. Just transfer the F-35’s to gorky and it will beat the crap out of cavour with F-35’s. Its the plane thats capable not the ship.

Cavour was $ 2.1 Bil without any aircrafts. CVF estimate is about3.5-4 bil, lets wait till it is actually built. Gorky at 1.2 Bil is still acceptable price, especially considering that Viraat is really really old.

REgarding IAF’s choice of M2k vs Mig-29’s. They were meant for different roles. BEfore the MKI, Mig-29 would take care of Air superiority while M2k were meant for SEAD and strike. In IAF I don’t recall M2k’s being tasked with A2A riole that often. Even in kargil they were accompanied by Mig-29 for escort.

If it is a good missile keep it.:rolleyes: . Lockmart should stop humiliating itself by spreading lies. Especially when DRDO clearly called them out on it.

😀 😀 BS as usual. Poor lockmart seems desperate to sell that crap to India. Dr Saraswat already denied any possibility of teaming up with US for ABM. The interest is one way. DRDO simply doesn’t want PAC-3.

http://news.oneindia.in/2008/01/18/drdo-denies-us-help-for-ballistic-missile-defence-project-1200666868.html

http://ia.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/06plane.htm

India, US sign landmark defence aviation deal

In what is seen as a major breakthrough, India has reportedly agreed to buy six Lockheed Martin C-130J planes from the United States worth $1 billion. US officials say this deal paves the way for closer strategic ties between the two countries.

The two countries signed the agreement on January 31 according to which, Lockheed Martin would begin delivering the Super Hercules turboprop aircraft from 2011, a US Air Force [Images] International Affairs official said on Tuesday.

India has in the past relied heavily on Russia [Images] for arms and transport aircraft, and the US, bearing in mind China’s military prowess, aims to improve strategic ties with India following this landmark deal.

Indian airmen would begin training in the US before the deliveries start, probably in 2010, US deputy assistant secretary of defence for South and Southeast Asia James Clad said.

The Pentagon had put before the US Congress the possibility of this deal in May 2007, and had put the value of the deal at $1.06 billion.

Lockheed Martin and Boeing, two of the biggest suppliers to the Pentagon, are currently in the midst of a bidding war with European and Russian aviation rivals to ink a potential deal to sell 126 new fighter aircraft to India at an estimated $10.2 billion.