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Russia delivers super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya to India
Moscow: After almost a decade of negotiations and reconstruction, the super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya formally joined the Indian Navy today at a ceremony attended by Defence Minister AK Antony and the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk. By early next year, the warship will be out patrolling the Indian Ocean
Here are the latest developments:
P-8I makes its maiden landing at INS Rajali runway
Washington: American defence major Boeing has delivered the second P-8I aircraft to India that is likely to boost the Indian Navy's long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
Boeing, which is building eight P-8I aircrafts for India, delivered the first one in May.
Based on the company's Next-Generation 737 commercial airplane, the P-8I is the Indian Navy variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing has developed for the US Navy.
"With two aircraft at Naval Station Rajali now, the Indian Navy will get a good feel for the P-8I's interoperability with other aircraft," said Leland Wight, Boeing P-8I programme manager.
"Acceptance trials on the first aircraft are progressing well and its availability for testing has been excellent, in large part due to Boeing's worldwide 737 support capabilities," Wight said.
The aircraft delivered yesterday will begin flight trials in the coming months.
The first P-8I recently completed testing its weapons capabilities, including successfully firing a Boeing Harpoon missile at a target and dropping a torpedo.
In order to efficiently design and build the P-8I and the P-8A, the Boeing-led team is using a first-in-industry, in-line production process that draws on the company's Next-Generation 737 production system, a media release said.
INS Vikramaditya
INS Vikramaditya (Sanskrit, Vikramāditya meaning "Brave as the Sun") is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier set to enter service with the Indian Navy in 2013. The ship has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary 1st century BC emperor of Ujjain, India, famed for his wisdom, valour and magnanimity.
Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet (until the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and Russian Navies before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget
The carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35 billion.[1] The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013[14] and aviation trials in September 2013 She was formally commissioned on 16 November, 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia
INS Vikramaditya
Career (India)
Name: INS Vikramaditya
Namesake: Vikramāditya
Builder: Black Sea Shipyard, Mykolayiv, Ukraine
Cost: $2.35 billion[1]
Commissioned: 16 November 2013
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Modified Kiev class
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 45,400 tons of loaded displacement
Length: 283.5 metres (930 ft) (overall)
Beam: 59.8 metres (196 ft)
Draught: 10.2 metres (33 ft)
Propulsion: 4 shaft geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp
Speed: in excess of 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
Endurance: 13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Crew: 1,400 - 2,000
Aircraft carried:
Total of 34 aircraft including
10 helicopters, possible mix of:
Indian Navy ships in full operation garb
NEW DELHI: All Indian Navy ships have been “steaming around” India’s coasts and its islands in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, according to a Press release of the Defence Wing of India’s Press Information Bureau.
These ships, the release said, have been keeping “a constant and round-the-clock” vigil on seas away from public gaze.
It does not explain why all these ships have been kept on alert in peaceful days, but says they have been in that position since Oct 20 last year when the Naval headquarters in New Delhi flashed an alert signal, ordering all Naval ships to be in their “full operational garb”. The order, it adds, had overnight transformed the tenor of activities in ships and shore centres, a fact not widely known.
After the order, the release said, with “all stations manned, guns and torpedoes loaded and a radar scanning ceaselessly, ships from different ports sailed to their respective stations on the wide expanse of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
Theirs was the task, it said, to “guard the 3,000-mile-long coastline as well as ports and harbours of country’s imports and exports against any enemy threat”. Who is or was the enemy which threatened India’s coast from the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea is not explained. Obviously, the reference cannot be to China because of that country’s geographical position. The question then is whether it is Pakistan against whom this “vigil” is being organised. Correspondent
Threat is real, says Minister
KARACHI: Mr A.T.M. Mustafa, Central Education and Information Minister, said in Karachi yesterday that the “neo-imperialism” of India was spreading its “tentacles” and posed a serious threat to all the smaller neighbours.
The Minister, who was asked to comment on the latest design of the Indian Government to merge the occupied part of Kashmir with Indian territory, described it as the “depth of treachery”. He said that the Security Council resolutions were there and India as a member of the United Nations was committed to honouring those resolutions.
Mr Mustafa, who stayed here for a day, said that the threat of Indian imperialism was “very real”.
Mr Mustafa reiterated that we wanted to live in peace with all, but declared that in the event of “aggression against us, we shall face it with the calm confidence of a people who know their own worth and the worth of a bully”.
In reply to a question on the mass eviction of Indian Muslims from the Indian states of Assam and Tripura, the Minister said “India is violating all canons of morality, justice and all the principles of law in evicting its own citizens”. — Agencies
'India's indigenous aircraft carrier a threat to China'
BEIJING: Describing the launch of India's indigenous aircraft carrier and Japan's biggest warship since World War II as a threat to China, a report in the state-run media today alleged some countries are backing New Delhi to balance Beijing's power.
The launch of India's INS Vikrant and Japan's helicopter carrier serve as a warning for China, said an article on the state-run Global Times' website.
"Some Chinese scholars emphasise that India has yet to grasp the key technologies of the carrier and that it will rely on other countries to maintain and upgrade the carrier.
"But it is also a fact that many countries are supporting India in developing advanced weaponry, not only for profit but also to balance China's power," said Liu Zongyi, an assistant research fellow with the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, in the article.
"India is well aware of the intention of the Western countries. Some politicians and media outlets in Indian deliberately stress the role of India's military buildup in containing China so as to please those traditional powers," it claimed.
But at the same time it said the launch of India's home- built aircraft carrier is indeed worth celebrating, because it marks a firm stride toward the indigenization of arms.
The triumphant launch of the hull demonstrated India's progress in building giant surface carriers, it said.
"The launch also shows that the Indian government has had preliminary success in localising arms production. The government has invested billions of dollars in the construction, research and development of domestic shipbuilding," it said.
Together with the launch of domestically built nuclear submarine INS Arihant, it will help boost the ruling Congress Party's election chances next year.
"They do mark India's achievements in localising arms production," it said.
While China's rise is mainly an economic one, India's emergence is more prominent in the military sphere, it said quoting Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report stating that India has been the largest weapons importer ever since 2011.
"The so-called external threats may serve as an excuse for engaging in military expansion as well as corruption, which has been endemic in India's scandal-ridden weaponry development in recent years," it said
Moscow: After almost a decade of negotiations and reconstruction, the super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya formally joined the Indian Navy today at a ceremony attended by Defence Minister AK Antony and the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk. By early next year, the warship will be out patrolling the Indian Ocean
Here are the latest developments:
- Officials lowered the Russian flag on INS Vikramaditya and raised the flag of the Indian Navy in its place. The wife of the ship's new captain, Suraj Berry, broke a coconut against its side at the handover ceremony, news agency AFP reported
- Originally built as the Admiral Gorshkov in the Soviet Union, the super aircraft carrier has been refurbished. It weighs 40,000 tonnes and will be the biggest and heaviest ship to be operated by the Indian Navy
- India joins a select group of nations and the only one in the Indian Ocean region to operate two aircraft carriers at the same time. The only aircraft carrier currently in use - INS Viraat - is reaching the end of its useful service
- The new carrier joins the navy at a time when the Indian Ocean region is becoming a highly-militarised zone. Admiral Sekhar Sinha, Commander in Chief, Western Naval Command said, "A second carrier will immensely increase India's reach and ability to project force. We can now have a carrier each for the eastern and western seaboards of India"
- Till now, India was policing the Indian Ocean region from the Gulf of Malacca in south-east Asia to the Gulf of Aden in the north with just the INS Viraat. The addition of the INS Vikramaditya to India's fighting fleet is widely being projected as a game changer
- India agreed to buy it in 2004 for $974 million. The cost kept shooting up. Russia delayed the delivery by over five years
- A fleet of warships will escort the INS Vikramaditya on its way from Russia to the Kochi naval yard. Once it reaches India, it is meant to be equipped with Israeli Barak missiles
- The INS Vikramaditya is 284 metres long and 60 metres high - that's about as high as a 20-storeyed building. It can carry 24 MiG-29 fighter jets and 10 helicopters at a time, and can sail nearly 1300 kilometres a day
- The warship can operate for 45 days without replenishment and will be manned by about 1600 people. Just the crew is expected to use over one lakh eggs, 200,000 litres of milk and over 16 tonnes of rice every month
- India is also building its first indigenous aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, in Kochi, which is expected to join the navy in 2018-19
P-8I makes its maiden landing at INS Rajali runway
Washington: American defence major Boeing has delivered the second P-8I aircraft to India that is likely to boost the Indian Navy's long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
Boeing, which is building eight P-8I aircrafts for India, delivered the first one in May.
Based on the company's Next-Generation 737 commercial airplane, the P-8I is the Indian Navy variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing has developed for the US Navy.
"With two aircraft at Naval Station Rajali now, the Indian Navy will get a good feel for the P-8I's interoperability with other aircraft," said Leland Wight, Boeing P-8I programme manager.
"Acceptance trials on the first aircraft are progressing well and its availability for testing has been excellent, in large part due to Boeing's worldwide 737 support capabilities," Wight said.
The aircraft delivered yesterday will begin flight trials in the coming months.
The first P-8I recently completed testing its weapons capabilities, including successfully firing a Boeing Harpoon missile at a target and dropping a torpedo.
In order to efficiently design and build the P-8I and the P-8A, the Boeing-led team is using a first-in-industry, in-line production process that draws on the company's Next-Generation 737 production system, a media release said.
INS Vikramaditya
INS Vikramaditya (Sanskrit, Vikramāditya meaning "Brave as the Sun") is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier set to enter service with the Indian Navy in 2013. The ship has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary 1st century BC emperor of Ujjain, India, famed for his wisdom, valour and magnanimity.
Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet (until the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and Russian Navies before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget
The carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35 billion.[1] The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013[14] and aviation trials in September 2013 She was formally commissioned on 16 November, 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia
INS Vikramaditya
Career (India)
Name: INS Vikramaditya
Namesake: Vikramāditya
Builder: Black Sea Shipyard, Mykolayiv, Ukraine
Cost: $2.35 billion[1]
Commissioned: 16 November 2013
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Modified Kiev class
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: 45,400 tons of loaded displacement
Length: 283.5 metres (930 ft) (overall)
Beam: 59.8 metres (196 ft)
Draught: 10.2 metres (33 ft)
Propulsion: 4 shaft geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp
Speed: in excess of 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
Endurance: 13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Crew: 1,400 - 2,000
Aircraft carried:
Total of 34 aircraft including
10 helicopters, possible mix of:
Indian Navy ships in full operation garb
NEW DELHI: All Indian Navy ships have been “steaming around” India’s coasts and its islands in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, according to a Press release of the Defence Wing of India’s Press Information Bureau.
These ships, the release said, have been keeping “a constant and round-the-clock” vigil on seas away from public gaze.
It does not explain why all these ships have been kept on alert in peaceful days, but says they have been in that position since Oct 20 last year when the Naval headquarters in New Delhi flashed an alert signal, ordering all Naval ships to be in their “full operational garb”. The order, it adds, had overnight transformed the tenor of activities in ships and shore centres, a fact not widely known.
After the order, the release said, with “all stations manned, guns and torpedoes loaded and a radar scanning ceaselessly, ships from different ports sailed to their respective stations on the wide expanse of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
Theirs was the task, it said, to “guard the 3,000-mile-long coastline as well as ports and harbours of country’s imports and exports against any enemy threat”. Who is or was the enemy which threatened India’s coast from the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea is not explained. Obviously, the reference cannot be to China because of that country’s geographical position. The question then is whether it is Pakistan against whom this “vigil” is being organised. Correspondent
Threat is real, says Minister
KARACHI: Mr A.T.M. Mustafa, Central Education and Information Minister, said in Karachi yesterday that the “neo-imperialism” of India was spreading its “tentacles” and posed a serious threat to all the smaller neighbours.
The Minister, who was asked to comment on the latest design of the Indian Government to merge the occupied part of Kashmir with Indian territory, described it as the “depth of treachery”. He said that the Security Council resolutions were there and India as a member of the United Nations was committed to honouring those resolutions.
Mr Mustafa, who stayed here for a day, said that the threat of Indian imperialism was “very real”.
Mr Mustafa reiterated that we wanted to live in peace with all, but declared that in the event of “aggression against us, we shall face it with the calm confidence of a people who know their own worth and the worth of a bully”.
In reply to a question on the mass eviction of Indian Muslims from the Indian states of Assam and Tripura, the Minister said “India is violating all canons of morality, justice and all the principles of law in evicting its own citizens”. — Agencies
'India's indigenous aircraft carrier a threat to China'
BEIJING: Describing the launch of India's indigenous aircraft carrier and Japan's biggest warship since World War II as a threat to China, a report in the state-run media today alleged some countries are backing New Delhi to balance Beijing's power.
The launch of India's INS Vikrant and Japan's helicopter carrier serve as a warning for China, said an article on the state-run Global Times' website.
"Some Chinese scholars emphasise that India has yet to grasp the key technologies of the carrier and that it will rely on other countries to maintain and upgrade the carrier.
"But it is also a fact that many countries are supporting India in developing advanced weaponry, not only for profit but also to balance China's power," said Liu Zongyi, an assistant research fellow with the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, in the article.
"India is well aware of the intention of the Western countries. Some politicians and media outlets in Indian deliberately stress the role of India's military buildup in containing China so as to please those traditional powers," it claimed.
But at the same time it said the launch of India's home- built aircraft carrier is indeed worth celebrating, because it marks a firm stride toward the indigenization of arms.
The triumphant launch of the hull demonstrated India's progress in building giant surface carriers, it said.
"The launch also shows that the Indian government has had preliminary success in localising arms production. The government has invested billions of dollars in the construction, research and development of domestic shipbuilding," it said.
Together with the launch of domestically built nuclear submarine INS Arihant, it will help boost the ruling Congress Party's election chances next year.
"They do mark India's achievements in localising arms production," it said.
While China's rise is mainly an economic one, India's emergence is more prominent in the military sphere, it said quoting Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report stating that India has been the largest weapons importer ever since 2011.
"The so-called external threats may serve as an excuse for engaging in military expansion as well as corruption, which has been endemic in India's scandal-ridden weaponry development in recent years," it said
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Anyway Does Islam allow use of nuclear weapons ??
