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Is India dropping INS Vishal for INS Virat-II??
Published September 15, 2016 SOURCE: Anand SG / FOR MY TAKE / IDRW.ORG
India’s Current Defence minister Manhohar Parrikar likes to save money and that too in major ways and latest casualty and off from his to-do list, might be the development and construction of India’s Second 65000 tonne Aircraft carrier with Nuclear propulsion. Recent media reports indicate that IAC-2 or INS Vishal is off the priority list of Indian Defence Ministry and Indian Navy is unlikely to get official funding for the project anytime soon due to complex and high development cost enabled with the project after carrying out in depth discussion with American and Russian Industrial partners. The Indian Defence Ministry is now actively considering development of sister Vikrant class conventional indigenous aircraft carrier with added and improved capabilities which might be named INS Virat-II after INS Virat-I which was a British designed Centaur-class aircraft carrier recently decommissioned from the Indian Navy service in keeping with Navy tradition of renaming warships of the same class. Many Defence analysts for long had voiced concern and also had taken a cautious approach on possible development of IAC-2 with Nuclear propulsion due higher developmental and ownership cost involved over a conventional aircraft carrier. India also could have required to carry out considerable amounts of investments in its shipyards to build human and technological expertise to handle repairs on a Nuclear propulsion ship. Ulitmialtey cost seems to be major hurdle which might have forced the Indian Defence Ministry to fall back on conventional aircraft carrier technology to rely on to keep developmental cost low and benefit from prior development of India’s first indigenously developed INS Vikrant-II which is now at the final stages of fitments before it is enters service into Indian Navy by 2018. Will India build another aircraft carrier on the lines of INS Vikrant-II or will decide to develop a 65000 tonne new aircraft carrier with conventional propulsion is the decision which likely will be discussed in coming months closely with all shareholders before final call is taken on the development of the second indigenous aircraft carrier.
http://idrw.org/india-dropping-ins-vishal-ins-virat-ii/ .
I know its not exactly a great source but the prospect of having improved vikrant class carrier thrills me. Always amazing to embrace indigenous weapons.MP is going in the right direction.
@Abingdonboy @PARIKRAMA
Do you have any info about this?
Wrong info. Idrw.rg posting some rumors as facts and articles lately. Vikrant 2 is already on the card but Vishal is too. Navy already issued official procedures to procure EMALs and guardian drones system. . . Shipyard was confident on building 2nd or even 2 more Vikrant class at the same time but Navy rejected the proposal as IAC 1 itself running out of schedule.