Archie
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India should go for our ocean class LHD. We can transfer all the tech and building blue prints to India. Since we will soon be decommisioning this LHD for a new class .
This photo of HMS Ocean during operation Ellamy in Libya shows the steel beach pontoon folded up and stored on top of the structure protecting the vehicle ramp going down from flight deck to vehicle deck.
Will serve as a good LHD building experience for India. Maybe after that India can modify it and build its own.
You gotta love the Brits
They will prematurely retire aircrafts and warships, just so that workers at their shipyards and Aircraft assembly lines remain employed and they do not loose the technical know-how.
HMS ocean was commissioned in year 1998, 26 years after USS Trenton/INS Jalashva..
Yet it will retire in year 2019, 3 years before INS Jalashva.
Something tells me that it will Find its way to India, after a comprehensive Refit, probably in 2022, in time to replace INS Jalashva.