I am not justifying cost over runs, am just justifying the fact that Navy paid the amount because it knows that the amount payed worth be worth it
Which doesn't make sense, since they never intended to pay that much for the carrier, because their initial estimates and those of the Russians of course were far lower. You can also add the years of delays, which also made it less worth it, because the initial plan was to use it as a stop gap till IAC 1 will be available and to train pilots and crews in the mean time. But now the carrier is more than 5 years delayed and has far higher cost at the same time. So they didn't paid anything based on what they knew, they just paid it because they couldn't back out anymore (too big to fail) and not because it still worth it as they planned it.
Am not talking about Russians , am talking about the IN
But IN had not choice, so no matter what they wanted, they had to take Migs and Kamov helicopter. We even know that IN initially wanted naval MKIs and not Migs, or that they asked Boeing and Dassault for informations on the use of their fighters on Vikramaditya. But at the end they sticked to it with the prospect to get the carrier at cheap or at least reasonable cost, which didn't turned out as they hoped.
As I said, the only decision they could had changed, was to go for the follow orders and for N-LCA, or to make the carriers more capable by adding other aircrafts, but they didn't.
Its good either way , we need to induct indigenous platforms more to support our local defense industries . It will only benefit us later .
Another justification of wasting money for pride reasons! IN don't need a modest carrier fighter for operational terms, nor do we need an operational carrier fighter version to develop experience in navalising fighters. We already do it with the N-LCA MK1 tech demonstrators. That exactly what tech demonstrator programs are used all over the world! To gain experience with new capabilities, BUT WITHOUT wasting too much time and money when there is no useful requirement for them at the moment. So all IN achieves with N-LCA MK2 development is, making their airwing less capable as it could be, complicating the LCA program as a whole by adding mixing their requirements with IAFs and wasting money that could had been used for more useful arms and techs.
Laoning is a training carrier and will be used for just that, for training .
Which is nonsense, since there is nothing like a training carrier! Either you induct a carrier to operational service and train your crew and pilots on it, at operations on high seas, or you just have a stationary carrier to train and test there. The carrier is operational, they have plenty of aircrafts available which can be deployed to full operational status anytime they want.
It's like saying INS Chakra is only a training sub, because it's prime use today was to train crews in operations of nuclear submarines and nobody stops us from using torpedos or missiles from it or? Exactly, just as nothing stops PLAN to use the carrier with a complete airwing and the CBG that it already has to deploy it to the Indian Ocean area if needed (although it's main aim will be the defence of Chinas coastlines, but that's another issue).
So the fact is, they have a carrier and all necessary capabilities today, which already are superior to what IN has and they already plan with NG fighters and capabilities, while IN is wasting time and money with N-LCA.
I am not justifying cost over runs, am just justifying the fact that Navy paid the amount because it knows that the amount payed worth be worth it
Which doesn't make sense, since they never intended to pay that much for the carrier, because their initial estimates and those of the Russians of course were far lower. You can also add the years of delays, which also made it less worth it, because the initial plan was to use it as a stop gap till IAC 1 will be available and to train pilots and crews in the mean time. But now the carrier is more than 5 years delayed and has far higher cost at the same time. So they didn't paid anything based on what they knew, they just paid it because they couldn't back out anymore (too big to fail) and not because it still worth it as they planned it.
Am not talking about Russians , am talking about the IN
But IN had not choice, so no matter what they wanted, they had to take Migs and Kamov helicopter. We even know that IN initially wanted naval MKIs and not Migs, or that they asked Boeing and Dassault for informations on the use of their fighters on Vikramaditya. But at the end they sticked to it with the prospect to get the carrier at cheap or at least reasonable cost, which didn't turned out as they hoped.
As I said, the only decision they could had changed, was to go for the follow orders and for N-LCA, or to make the carriers more capable by adding other aircrafts, but they didn't.
Its good either way , we need to induct indigenous platforms more to support our local defense industries . It will only benefit us later .
Another justification of wasting money for pride reasons! IN don't need a modest (that's how they call it!) carrier fighter for operational needs, nor do we need an operational carrier fighter version to develop experience in navalising fighters. We already do it with the N-LCA MK1 tech demonstrators. That exactly what tech demonstrator programs are used all over the world! To gain experience with new capabilities, BUT WITHOUT wasting too much time and money when there is no useful requirement for them at the moment. So all IN achieves with N-LCA MK2 development is, making their airwing less capable as it could be, complicating the LCA program as a whole by adding mixing their requirements with IAFs and wasting money that could had been used for more useful arms and techs.
Vikramaditya useless,N-LCA useless,Indian Navy incompetant you sound like one of those Chinese trolls
A troll is usually someone that is ignoring facts and reality, not the one that show it. And I didn't said Vikramaditya is useless, it's operationally limited and finacial disaster!
Which shows your level of denial. They have a carrier available today, have succesfully developed carrier fighter varients, have different naval helicopters for ASW or AEW roles, are developing catapults and catapult capable AEW aircrafts, are training with Brazilian navy for carrier operations, have credible access to the Ukraine forces and industry for experience and techs and what is most worrisome are developinh stealth aircrafts for their carriers.
, so I would expected you to read it before making judgments about me(looks more like you are good at making judgments on everyone, including your own navy 
). Laoning is a training carrier and will be used for just that, for training . The brand new carriers Chinese are building will take more than a decade to be fully operational and it will take far more time to get used to carrier operations and develop plans and doctrines for those carriers . As for all the stuff they are developing let them first develop them and get them in working order . We are also developing a whole lot of things and they're also developing a whole lot of things .
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. I was not against foreign equipment am simply supporting local defense industries so that they may get better in time , you cannot support local defense industries without buying their equipment . Chinese had their problems but now it has put them in a massive advantage.
