are you telling me that current and future acquisition of PN surface fleet wont be able to support one single AC? their is no point of taking AC up indian coast as it will be suicidal for AC and supporting fleet...
here is an article I found which might be useful for you to understand why we cant afford an AC
Italian carrier battle group
The CVSASW (Aircraft Carrier with Anti-Submarine Warfare) Giuseppe Garibaldi is Italy's first carrier. The battle group based in Taranto called COMFORAL is formed by the carrier Garibaldi, two "Durand de La Penne" class destroyers, two support ships Etna and Elettra, and three amphibious/support ships (San Giusto, San Marco and San Giorgio).
(After 2010 the Italian battle group will be formed by the new carrier Cavour, 5-6 new warships (including destroyers Horizon and frigates FREMM), one new support ship, some minehunters and new submarines (the COMFORAL will be a reserve group).[2]
Carrier battle group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now can you see what an AC requirement is, u cant just have a floating platform with planes on it sitting as ducks to be targeted aqnd you cant have only 1 or 2 ships guarding it.
PN is already 50% below its required number of naval vessels
PN needs at least below number of equipments before it can even think of buying an AC, and 7 to 9 supporting ships for the whole AC group.
This is PN ideal requirement, We could have achieved this requirement if our govt was not
corrupt and uneducated. You are welcome to advise only if you have more knowledge or information with proof.
6 Heavy frigates/ Destroyers, UK Type 45. type 52 chinese
12 Medium frigates, type 54 chinese, US OHP frigate
10 Corvettes Malgiam class or F22P(I think are larger corvettes with only difference of 500 tons displacement)
20 missile boats, Houbei class, Rauma class, Visby class. Hamina class
12 mine Hunters
14 MRTB mix of MRTB 33 and YTKB-400 or YTKB 44,
12 Submarines with the likes of agosta 90, U214 and yuan class
15 patrol boat like, armadale class, kingston class, Astral Partol boats APB 48
14 Auxiliary ships
PN AVIATION
70 to 80 Mirages or JH7 or J10 mix. If it can get J11 or F18 why not
10 Sea Kings transport, search/rescue
12 Lynx transport/anti-ship/ sub helicopters
14 Lockheed P-3C Orion
5 Breguet Atlantique
8 Fokker F27-200
6 Harbin Z-9
helicopters (kitted with all the ships inducted in PN Mix of Harbin Z-9 and or Sea kings.