India Carrier "10 years behind schedule"

>ramp

Name: INS Vikrant
Namesake: INS Vikrant (R11)
Owner: Ministry of Defence
Operator: Indian Navy
Ordered: 2004
Builder: Cochin Shipyard Limited
Cost: $0.5bn (planned), $3.765bn (to date)
Laid down: 28 February 2009
Launched: 12 August 2013
Completed: estimated 2017 june[1]
Commissioned: December 2018(expected)[2][3]
Motto: "I defeat those who fight against me". Sanskrit जयेम सं युधि स्पृध:
Status: Fitting out

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>Indian floating piece of shit
>Still has more deck space than the QE2 class
J U S T

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>>33015086
>Motto: "I defeat those who fight against me"

>Work on the ship's design began in 1999, and the keel was laid in February 2009. The carrier was floated out of its dry dock on 29 December 2011[9] and was launched in 2013. The ship is currently being fitted out, according to the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) it is expected to be completed by 2023,[1] though the Navy still hopes to partially commission the ship in late 2018. The project cost has escalated dramatically to ₹19,341 crore (US$2.9 billion) as of 2014.[10]

Wew this makes Britain's shitshow of a carrier program look efficient

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>>33015053

My thoughts are that the US is very lucky to have gotten into the carrier game early so they could slowly learn how to do it over time instead of having to play catch up.

>>33015053
Does it have bathrooms inside of it?
Not even memeing but I heard there's even fights in the parliament about shitting in the streets or not.

Ugh. It's the Arjun over again.

>>33015053
Still way better than what the chink have

>>33015093
>30 total aircraft

Kek even the Russians beat this

>>33015110
Literal poop deck.

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>>33015101
>hopes to partially commission the ship in late 2018
>partially commission

>>33015120
>commissioned with flight ops since 2012

>piece of shit decaying in a pond as 2023 equipment is placed next to 2009 equipment

It looks like a number of rather mundane issues are holding it back, like German imported gear failing.

http://in.rbth.com/blogs/stranger_than_fiction/2016/08/01/shifting-timelines-of-indias-indigenous-aircraft-carrier_617091

>Vikrant was undocked on 10 June 2015 after the completion of structural work. Cabling, piping, heat and ventilation works will be completed by 2017; sea trials will begin thereafter.[34] By October 2015, the construction of the hull was close to 98 percent complete, with flight deck construction underway.[35] The installation of machinery, piping and the propeller shafts was in progress by January 2016; it was reported, however, that there were delays in the delivery of equipment from Russia for the carrier's aviation complex.[36]

>blaming the russians

Kek this is what all the third world shitholes do when their construction fails

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AT LEAST INDIAN ARMED FORCES PROGRESS ARE MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN DIRTY MUSLIM PAKIS!! FUCK PAKISTAN!! JAI HIND!!

>>33015165
Ahhh yes because high quality Indian products are doing amazing while foreign products are holding India back!

>The AB/A grade steel which was supposed to be supplied from Russia faced problems in delivery. To resolve this, the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) and Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) created facilities to manufacture the steel in India.[9][14] Reportedly, three types of special steel for the hull, flight deck and floor compartments were manufactured at the Bhilai Steel Plant, Chhattisgarh and Rourkela Steel Plant, Odisha. Due to this, this is the first ship of the Indian navy to be built completely using domestically-produced steel.[20]

Guess what the #1 problem is for the ship everyone.

>>33015181
>a-at least we are better than a muslim terror-ridden shithole!

>Audit scrutiny of records of the Indian Navy and Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), where the vessel is being built, showed that out of 14 non-Russian origin equipments, nine were ordered between May 2010 and October 2015, indicating that even eight years after scheduled timelines, the remaining equipment was yet to be ordered.

>Russian origin AFC equipment was ordered between January 2012 and November 2015, after conclusion of a General Contract – an umbrella contract for placing orders with Rosoboronexport (the defence export cartel) under separate supplementary agreements which are concluded for manufacture and delivery of AFC equipment. Signed in June 2011 between CSL and Rosoboronexport on a turnkey basis, it stipulates that the supplier would render technical assistance in the form of documentation, installation, trials and performance of the AFC equipment within 66months from the date on which the contract comes into effect. The general contract came into effect from August 1, 2012.

>“This indicated that procurement commenced nearly five years after scheduled timeline of December 2006,” says the CAG report.

...

>>33015093
>Still has more deck space than the QE2 class
It's called the QE class faggot. And you got this factoid from where exactly?

>>33015053
Buttmad poo in loo janny deleted my POO first post.

If the POOs weren't so corrupt, they'd be a superpower for real.

>>33015368
Lmao I see where it was deleted

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>>33015120
>t.poo

having to poo proof the hull and all accessible areas of the ship must be why it is taking so long

>>33015095

If they never fight anyone, it never becomes a false statement

>The concept design received from DCN of France in March 1990, based on the operational requirements of the Indian Navy, concluded that a ship of around 37,500 tons was required. However, for various reasons, the Navy considered a different tonnage for the ship and accordingly promulgated PSRs which were not in sync with a ship of 37,500 tons. This played havoc with deadlines.

>>33015719
>However, for various reasons, the Navy considered a different tonnage for the ship and accordingly promulgated PSRs which were not in sync with a ship of 37,500 tons

Really gets me thinking

>>33015053
Holy fuck this makes the Ford's development look amazing.

>>33015181
Pakistan can manufacture their own guns and ammo. Even war torn Afghanistan can do this, but India needs to import things as simple as rifle bullets from Israel.

Pakistan submarine and
The JF-17 program is much better managed than the Indian Tejas. The Pakis actually had them in service for quite a few years.

The Paki submarine procurement program also went better than the Indian one. The Indian Navy was short 12 submarines 2 years ago, and have made zero progress since.

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Anyone have the screencap from the USN anon who spent time aboard an Indian cruiser as an advisor and posted about how hopelessly inept and incompetent they were?
If the PooInLoos every get this thing launched they're gonna have a bad time. Naval aviation is hard, yo.

>>33016279
You didn't build the FC1

>>33016503
>If the PooInLoos every get this thing launched they're gonna have a bad time. Naval aviation is hard, yo.

They've had aircraft carriers since 1961, they ought to know thing or two.
Emphasising the "ought to" here.

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>>33015105
Real early.

>On 5 November 1915, Lieutenant Commander Henry C. Mustin, USN, in an AB-2 flying boat, made the first catapult launch from a ship, USS North Carolina

>>33015190
Poo in the steel?

UK's carrier program has actually been incredibly efficient as a program.

The delay lays squarely with Gordon Brown who put a 1.5 year delay on it just to try and make it go over budget because he knew he wasn't winning the next election and wanted to try and damage the Tories.

Then the ACA kept it around the budget anyway, because they are miracle workers up in Rosyth.

>>33016933

This post above was meant to be in reply to >>33015101

Lol, the indians are shitting in the streets but spend money on an aircraft carrier. Also, their planes suck.

>>33015172

Because the Russian military-industrial complex is known for honesty, lol. It's a corrupt petro-state.

>>33015093
Although this isn't true, it made me chuckle

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>>33015053

>aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant

So in Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor", the loos were about 30 years more advanced in the mid 90s than in real life? Currently reading that book

>>33018210

Hmm, apparently they do already have carriers, but I m pretty sure the one in the book is called "Vikrant"

>>33015053

Twenty years and billions of dollars and it will just end up as a floating street for pajeets to shit on.

>>33015053
As much (literal) shit as we give India, I'm sure a small subset of the population would be able to pull off a technologically marvelous carrier. But the thing about India is that:
1. The politics are massively corrupt, to the point of preventing any kind of progress.
2. It's not exactly a unified country.

There are 42 official languages, but a majority of the population is illiterate. There are so many pockets of people claiming distinct ethnicities, and instead of a melting pot like the USA, it's just a regional mess that politicians exploit.

So yeah. I don't expect India to create it's own domestic anything, despite being capable on paper.

World power by 2027?

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>>33019542
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0b2LGf9jM
*2030
:^)

>>33018233
>>33018210
Vikrant was also the first Indian carrier, ex. HMS Hercules.

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>>33015093
>floating piece of shit
So that's what this refers to

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>>33015053
>INS Vikrant, will be ready only by 2023...
I'm calling bullshit. it cannot possibly take that long to potty train some sailors. they're goddamn adults, already!

>>33015053

I bet the poop deck was finished on schedule.

>>33015053
Does someone have screencaps of the guy who claimed to have cross trained on an indian warship?

>>33016279
The JF-17 is mainly chinese tho isnt it?

>>33019742
Might want to remove the source at the top, and fix the scale if you want it to be believable.

>>33015127
underrated post

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>>33015110
Asking Gabrielle Giffords about the heavily gun armed deployed naval ship named after her whether each head has a hole in it. Priceless.
I should have screenshot that posting on her page.
(tip, she is the champion poster rekt kid for anti gunners , since she was shot in the head and then has a ship named after her.)

>>33015053

Where do they poop? Straight off the flight deck??

>>33015053
didn't MURRICA sent like 2 of their neam ear carriers to poo-in-loo land to be scrap? can't they just refit those and call it a day?

>>33020143
I think Chinks designed it but Pakis can build it all except for the engine which is Russian. But still it's way better than Indian attempt. Indians have been trying to pull the same deal with just about everyone, French, Sweden and now US.

Um...

Is there a point for India to have an aircraft carrier?

Its main unequivocal enemy is Pakistan which is right smack dab on the border.

It has some regional competition with China but its also right on the border of a giant mountain range in the north.

I could understand wanting a good navy but what purpose does it serve? At least China somewhat I can understand since it wants to guarantee sea trade routes through SEA.

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>>33024008
Indians build the Su-30MKI except for the engine, which is Russian.

>>33015053
The ship will rust away before India actually completes it.

>>33016111
Yep. The designing phase began in 1999.

>>33016933
>incredibly efficient
Lmao

>Brown
I realize that. That's why I called it a shitshow of a program.

>>33024041
Yep I stated the same above

They'll be putting 2023 equipment next to 2009 equipment next to 2004 steel

>>33024041
or the flight deck covered in poo beforehand