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Aircraft Carrier for Indian Navy to Be Built Using Russian Technologies

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Naval Industry News - Russia, India
 
 
 
Aircraft Carrier for Indian Navy May Be Built Using Russian Technologies
 
The design of Russian nuclear-propulsion aircraft carrier Storm will serve the basis for the ship of this type to be proposed for the Indian Navy. According to the Izvestia daily, the Russian proposal is the leading one despite the United States and France participating in the technological race too. A final decision will be made during the competition about to be launched by New Delhi.
     
The design of Russian nuclear-propulsion aircraft carrier Storm will serve the basis for the ship of this type to be for the Indian Navy. According to the Izvestia daily, the Russian proposal is the leading one despite the United States and France participating in the technological race too. A final decision will be made during the competition about to be launched by New Delhi.A nuclear powered Project 23000E Storm aircraft carrier may displace 80,000 to 85,000 tonnes with some 70 aircraft on board.
     
"The Russian design dovetails with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s concept ‘Make in India’", the newspaper quotes naval expert Alexander Mozgovoi as saying. The technology transfer is a key aspect of the aircraft carrier construction issue. "At present, only Moscow is ready to share with New Delhi both weapons and other systems, on the one hand, and their development and manufacturing technologies, on the other," the expert said.

Last week, New Delhi and Washington discussed the feasibility of cooperating in aircraft carrier construction technologies but reached no agreement. Similar difficulties have been encountered with the French too. Under the Indian-French contract for Rafale fighters, India insisted on the transfer of the active electronically scanned radar technologies. France refused to do so.

Meanwhile, Russia and India have implemented several successful strategic military-technical programs on co-developing the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, license-producing Sukhoi Su-30MKI (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) fighters by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and developing the Mikoyan MiG-29K (Fulcrum) carrierborne fighter version for the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier just to name a few. "Russia is the only country that has leased a latest nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine, K-152 Nerpa, to India. A resolution is being worked out to lease another submarine of the type. We have also assisted India in designing its Arihant nuclear-propulsion ballistic missile submarine," the daily quotes Vadim Kozyulin, professor with the Academy of Military Sciences, as saying.

"According to Kozyulin, it is the sum of these factors that favors the Russian design. The Storm’s deck is designed to accommodate the MiG-29K. There will be the Russian-Indian Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) further down the line. Its design is commonized with Russia’s T-50. This means that a carrierborne variant will be derived from the baseline model in the future. Anyway, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced its development. It is very unlikely that New Delhi will resist the temptation to deploy cutting-edge fighters on deck after investing $25 billion in the joint program. Naturally, it needs the right parameters in such a case,"
the Izvestia wrote.

Russia remains India’s primary arms supplier, with the total value of the contracts having exceeded 340 billion rupee (over $5 billion) over the past three years, according to a news release by the Indian Ministry of Defense. According to the ministry, the United States ranks second, with India having spent 300 billion rupee (about $4.4 billion) between FY2012-2013 and FY2014-2015. During the period, India awarded 162 armament orders, including 67 to other countries, including Russia (18 contracts), the United States (13) and France (6).

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