1. What is the present ship-building capability of India?
2. My knowledge on such matters is not in-depth like you but I read somewhere that you need deep docks to build bigger and heavier ships. How many sites are there in India at present that can launch a 65,000 vessel?
3. What is the present budget of India and how much is allocated to the navy?
4. How many AC has India build so far?
5. Nuclear reactors are not based on jugaar or one-size-fits-all. IN cannot build a nuclear reactor for the AC taking the nuclear reactor of the submarine as benchmark.
It is safe to assume since the AC with 65,000 tons weight is bigger than INS Arihant in displacement it will therefore require a bigger reactor for the bigger vessel. How many such nuclear reactors, meant for military use, has been designed and built by India so far?
6. What is the cost of building, maintaining and operating a nuclear powered AC? Countries like UK have been deploying AC since ages. Yet even UK does not dare build a nuclear AC just yet because of cost issues. Thought their experience, infra and def budget is higher than India.
7. For how many months can a nuclear AC be deployed at sea and for how many months will it have to be berthed? The French CdG nuclear AC has to sit at port for six months. What will be the time frame for Indian AC?
1. The nation which build 5 thousand ton frigate was abbled to build 40K ton carrier and you still think its not possile to build 65k ton carrier??? Well let me assume, you must be in love with Congress.
2.I don't know that... our yards can be upgraded to built one.. if you want nucks then you need to build a reactors, uranium enrichment facilities, missiles and so on.. How did India do that??? in the same manner.
3. we don't need to look at the budget.. even if 10 billion is allocated to the navy it's well enough to build one... One thing you're not understanding is that.. IN will not pay the entire money that's needed to build a carrier in a one go... as i mentioned building a carrier as per our standards will take more than 8 years. so if a carrier costs 5 billion, IN will pay the cash in little sums for 8 years. not a big deal.
4. Chinese are building carriers from the scratch without any expeience, India is building one. more than 90% of works are finished. that experience is more than enough to build a 65k ton.
5. In can build reactor for Carrier from the experience of ATV project. and we don't need to start that work from the scratch. some minor and major modification is needed.
Dude not a big deal.. Carriers are going to use 2 reactors. 100 ton Nimitz class carrier runs under 190MW rwactor, while 42 ton French carrier runs under 2 30 MW reactor.. we already have experience with 83 MW reactor.. so plaing 2 of them under 65k ton carrier is more than enough. and Miniaturizing the reactor is tough than making one big.
6. Just becasue UK with its history didn't build n carriers so we don't need one is not a answer man. its about operational needs. I hear many UK think tanks on BBC talking bad about building the current two cariers in a conventional model too..
7. it'll be deployed as long as its needed. ofcousrse like conventional ones these ones too needs maintenance but that a huge different from conventional one. i don't know that time it'll take to maintain, everything depends on the repair AC need. and i don't buy French navy stationed in port for 6 months, if yes so maybe because they don't want ot send it out due to costs or doesn't need to be out at that point of time.. not becasue it needs 6 months of maintanance.
and that's the one of the point we're going fo r 3 carriers. while one is in the port for maintenance other one can take its place.
