Loose the arrogance about carrier operations, basic doctrines for carrier warfare are not that difficult to pick up simply by reading open source material and watching other navys.
Yeah Right :rolleyes:
1) Cost, India is not yet a true 1st world country and despite what many here think does not have huge sums to spend on 70k super carriers, thus a cheap option was required.
With an economy growing between 8-9% a year and projected to grow faster in the future , we’ll manage somehow . :rolleyes:
And 1.5 Billion for the Gorkshov isn’t exactly cheap.
The US, UK, France, Thailand are not on India’s threat list and are unlikely to ever make the list. So the Mig-29’s will never meet the Litenings 2’s,F-18’s, Rafales, Harriers in a combat situation. Sure maybe in a training scenario, like has happened often, but otherwise the only threats Indian carriers face are Pakistani Submarines.
Non existent Chinese Carriers carrying non existent Chinese Su-33’s, if they arrive in the future will probably be smart and wont venture too far away from home and hence probably wont meet Indian Carriers during their lifetime.
Let the Chinese get a Carrier first, and then learn to operate it proficiently (And no, it doesn’t happen overnight like you implied), before we even begin to talk about it. (That is, if they think that a carrier even fits into their operational requirements.)
I realy feel that had India have cooperated very closely with the CVF consortium companys
And they would have been happy to transfer the technology right away ?? Carrier building is an art, you don’t just pass away technology like that to every other nation that comes up and asks for it, especially one that might be a future economic competitor.
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