things have change just think Kilos armed with Squal in Confined space of Persian Gulf!

Feel bad for the Iranian Kilos and their crews. With complete air dominance of the USN and USAF over the crampped Persian Gulf, those Kilos can’t hide forever… it will have to come up for air.

Yes, I understand professor. I’m talking experience taking off an actual carrier with an actual jet fighter instead of helos.

Well, tell that to the RN (and the USMC) as well. They’ve been playing with helos as long as the IN has.

According to our understanding of physics and the nature of the universe as of this moment, it shouldn’t be possible to go faster than the speed of light. And by speed I mean d/t, not anything relativistic.

Then again, our understanding of the universe as of this moment doesn’t even allow us to understand what 90% of the universe is made of. Either our equations are wildly off and/or we simply don’t have enough information to make even a decent SWAG; hence we wind up calling it something silly like “dark matter”. Not too far off from the Greeks stating that the universe was made up of four elements because that was their logical conclusion based on their understanding of the universe at that moment.

Short answer to the question of the thread: we don’t have enough information to give an answer. Anyone stating that they can definitively state one way or the other also doesn’t have enough information but what they lack in information, they make up with strength of conviction 😉

Actually, Russians and a particular British firm had a lot to do with the design 😉

Maybe not 500 miles but what about 50? The key point in my text is sq miles. Think of a circle, if the carrier is put in the center of it and its combat escorts in a 25 mile radius around it, that’s nearly 2000 sq miles of space being occupied by a relative handful of ships… and that’s a tight formation. They are even spaced farther apart, geography allowing.

A truly massive nuclear warhead is required to have a moderate damage radius of 25 miles… in the order of a 50 MT weapon.

Someone wrote this once, I wonder who it could be…

yet just becouse a state is poor relative to another it does not mean it does not have the right to buy weapons.

Let’s go to the horse’s mouth… 🙂

Contrary to what some people may think, the Indian govt knows exactly what it wants:
It wants the best strategic deal out of this rather large purchase. Just like when countries buy large amounts of Boeings or Airbuses, there are other strategic concerns at play other than just civil liners. Same with this fighter purchase. The fighters themselves aren’t the end, they are the means to the end. No matter what plane India chooses, it will be a good plane but the real commodity the Indians are purchasing is strategic in nature.