Why not?
Naval Tejas is bound to be ready around the time Vikrant is commissioned, so I don't see where I was wrong.
Its your bias that makes you say that.
This has been discussed till death in many other threads you might wanna check up on them.
But I'll repeat it for your sake, speed is hardly a factor when AKG is coming head on, and it is not a cruise missile that it'll take fancy maneuvers to dodge past defense systems.
And imagine 10 ships launching defensive missiles all over the place.
But disregarding that, IN will have AWACS other than the present Ka-31 heli-borne awacs which will again aid in detection more than conventional ship based detection.
AWAC systems like these along side naval fighters traveling at a distance from the carrier group will automatically have greater chances of detecting and engaging enemy aircrafts before they even get to fire your
godly AKGs.
Why don't you read it.
The delays happened coz Russia were not able to provide the ABS steel; no where does it say that they did provide the steel in the end.
Navy floats out first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier - The Hindu