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2017-02-16 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2017-02-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 You missed one.
Brazil decided to shutdown carrier air and scrap their old French carrier once known as Foch and currently São Paulo (A12).

Posted by 3dc 2017-02-16 00:57|| 2017-02-16 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 On 14 February 2017, the Navy announced that the ship will be demobilized and subsequently decommissioned.

Posted by 3dc 2017-02-16 00:58|| 2017-02-16 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 With one-engined planes over water,
We'll make of the Pakis a slaughter,
But if'n we're damaged
And fishes are famished,
We'll shoo them away with our shutter.

Alternatively...

The Indians' martial impatience,
In contrast to meat-eating nations,
Secures them the vanguard
Where others say, "too hard:"
"Commencing unmanned operations!"

"I meant to do that."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-02-16 01:10|| 2017-02-16 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm having a Zen Flog moment here. Please do not interrupt me.

Posted by newc 2017-02-16 03:35|| 2017-02-16 03:35|| Front Page Top

#5 There's a whole lot more, including that the Indian Air Force would be better off with used F-16 aircraft. Wonder how well those work on a carrier?

Back when the F-16 was the Latest Thing(TM), Vought Aircraft - desperate to stay in business with the F-8 Crusader gone and the A-7 Corsair II going - proposed a navalized version of the F-16 as a cheaper alternative to the F-18, which had some fairly serious problems in its earliest versions. The USN said no, mainly because the Sea Falcon only had one engine, and USN aircraft must have two engines to increase the safety margin at sea.

Fast forward to 2017. How many engines does the F-35 have again?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-02-16 05:34|| 2017-02-16 05:34|| Front Page Top

#6 F16 and F18 came out of the same light weight program, but put current models next to each other and you should notice that the landing gear of the F16 looks like toothpicks compared to the F18. Carrier landings are brute force efforts not to crash on a postage stamp.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-02-16 10:04|| 2017-02-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Should start with a helicopter carrier anyways. India really doesn't have need of a full carrier and they can work up the institutional knowledge without catapults and very expensive jets.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-16 11:15|| 2017-02-16 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 As far as Russian equipment being sub par, you have to remember that Russia's design plan has long been 'It only has to work correctly once!'
(I give you the engines of the MiG25 as an example...)

Posted by ed in texas 2017-02-16 19:16|| 2017-02-16 19:16|| Front Page Top

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