Oh my
Hats of to your thinking.
Professor how can Brahmos supersonic (anti ship)cruise missile Agni - III(3500km),K-15 750 km submarines can stop
Air Raid?
I already mentioned about escorting Indian frigates their Surface to air capability is limited to 40-50km.
OK Fox -
I know You have a valid point, we have SAMs on ships of range have max range of 60 Kms..
But you are not looking at one part of pic here.
The other part -
A ship has a long range radar, and in case your Mirages carry harpoon they will be visible at a distance of mimimum 300 Kms distance (Trust me they will be) like a glowing sun in the radars.
The ship will then scramble its Mig 29s, 16 Migs with Zhuk-MESA and R-77 BVRs will then start an air raid over your JF-17 and Mirages. Iam sure you know what RADAR you have on JF-17, dont you???(or are you still deciding).
Now the AWACs flying low will also detect the fighters with 'evil intentions' and detect the targets, their co-ordinates then will be passed on to Mig-29s through datalink and Migs will know the targets even before your MIrage gets a lock on on the AC.
They will then 'try' to take out the Mirages and Iam sure they will be blown into peices even before they detect the MIgs.
And if they still maneg to miss out, You have the SAM.
and SAMs at range 60kms are as destructive at 600 Kms....
even if you send 50 Mirages(thats what you have) for sinking the Vikramaditya, you still will be at loss, as they will be firing the Micas (may be some chinese), which is 50 Kms range and 35 Kms kinetic kill range will all be lost in Arabean sea.....
Now see how the game changes....