i was wondering if Gorskhov was relly an improvement over the vernrable old WW2 centar class carrier it was replaceing.
1. relieablity i know viraat R22 was one of the least relible moden carriers around 😉 and it is a much to the indian technishines whop have manged to keep such an old vessle in serives for so long it astoashing. will gorskhov be any more relible as it had been badly looked after in the bad old days of Sovite union and had being liking around for a long time befor the IN navy bought the ship
2. air group was there no way viraat could be rifted to take the MIG 29k as the carrier was CATOBAR orgionaly or an other carrier with a better reputaion i.e speed up ADS buy old harriers untill new ships and planes are redey. also gorskhov wasn’t a pure carrier it was a russian harrier carrier with a shed load of ASM and AAW wepons so even if it altered to be a pure carrier will still be the eqiverlent of a much small carrier. it won’t be puching its weight when it comes to combat ops.
pre refit its air wing was ment to be 12 yak 38 12 ka27 helixsA 2 Ka-31 RLD
while it air wing post refit as being preticted at only 16 mig 29k by BHARAT RAKSHAK. along with a helo complament. i know the mig 29 it vast impovemt over the harrier but is it worth taking so few of them of such a large vessel.
i.e on the same site it says the hermes could take 30 harries at the expence of most of the helo wing it tonnage is only Displacement: 23,900 tons standard and 28,700 tons full load. it is about half the weight of gorskhov and lacks the one of the most useful abilities simaltaious lanch and recovery i know it isn’t use very much if at all but it allows a much better safey at sea in condions such as unsheduled landings.
pheew thats all i think of all possible problems with the buy im i compleatly wronge if so why sorry about the spelling it because im tired 😮
Gorshkov’s designed airwing was to include 36 aircraft: 14 Yak-41, 6 Yak-38M, 10 Ka-27PL, 2 Ka-27PS (SAR), 4 Ka-31 (AEW). On first sortie she carried 12 Yak-38M, 16 Ka-27PL, 2 Ka-25 PS and 2 Ka-25DC.
The hangar is 130×22.5×6.6 m and it’s armoured (don’t know if this feature will be retained on Vikram, but the hangar dimensions most likely will stay),
1500 tons of aviation fuel were carried, weapon storage was for 3 sorties.
It’s hard to say what the range of Vikram will be, as the initial boilers KN98/64 are changed to KVG-3 which are more economic. Gorshkov was able to store 8900 tons of fuel for boilers, having 4050 nm range at 30 knots (30.5 knots during test runs) and 6900 nm at 18.6 knots. The new boilers are multifuel, meaning that tanking system may be changed and replenishment at sea may be much easier.
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