https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_V ikramaditya So 13 years

>>34469428
Russia will never build a new carrier and India and China aren't friends.

They got ripped off re-fitting Vikramaditya. The only other option would have been to do it themselves, which despite >Indians may have actually have been a better idea given how badly the Russians took them for a ride.

>>34469428
>only way to tell it apart from Kuznetsov is that India can't even afford to have the planes for it

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>>34469801
and, of course, the lack of... well...

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No, the Indian navy is pretty laughable.

There are several accounts of people going to train them, and all their ships are nothing short of shit filled death traps that have a habit of ramming each other.

>On 10 June 2016, while undergoing a scheduled major refit of INS Vikramaditya, two people were killed by a toxic gas leak that occurred during maintenance work in the Sewage Treatment Plant compartment of INS Vikramaditya at Karwar.
The Russians should have installed a designated shitting deck as an option.

>>34469891
>implying there aren't many accounts of crew shitting off the side of the deck
The top is the shitting deck!

>>34469949
did that really happen? The indian military has to be the most feces rich organization on the planet

It was a good way to start. They gained enough experience to build their own now. You have to think about it as half R&D.

>>34469972
I'm just memeing but it's certainly possible.

>>34469428
Those curry niggers were ripped off big time by russia.

For 2.5 billion dollars they could simply ask the sorks or spain to build them a brand new aircraft carrie

>>34469801
They already bought Mig-29K for the ship

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>>34469428
Holy shit the island on that thing is huge.It's almost as dumb as the brits new carrier.

Island is normal. Its the rest of the ship thats midget-sized

>>34470882
Neither of these countries build aircraft carriers.

>>34470908
They did? I only know they ditched Naval Tejas for sake of Sea Gripen.