The reason for the next postponement of the sea trials of the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in India was called the rainy season

In India, it is reported that sea trials of the Vikrant aircraft carrier cannot begin in the country. This aircraft carrier has been under construction for the Indian Navy for 15 years. INS Vikrant was launched in 2013. In the fall of last year, the so-called pool tests were carried out, and the sea tests were planned to be completed in the first half of 2021. However, plans have to be adjusted again.

Initially, the postponement of the start of sea trials of the Indian aircraft carrier was associated with the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. Indian officials are now saying that INS Vikrant will not start sea trials due to the rainy season. The monsoon season with heavy rainfall in India began in early June. It usually lasts until mid-September.

It is in September, as stated, that the Vikrant aircraft carrier will enter the tests, which should be the final ones for the aircraft carrier. After them, INS Vikrant is scheduled to enter service with the Indian Navy.

At the moment, work is underway on the aircraft carrier to equip it. The main question for the Indian Ministry of Defense is which aircraft will form the basis of the Vikranta air wing. While we are talking about carrier-based fighters MiG-29K, but in India they say that it is necessary to consider options with more modern aircraft. How long such a review will take is difficult to say. Apparently, the Indian authorities themselves do not know about this, and for 6 years they have not been able to decide which aircraft to order for their Air Force. So far, 36 French Rafales have been ordered, and the choice has not yet been made for 114 aircraft planned for purchase. Recall that the extended list of applicants includes Russian MiG-35 and Su-35, French Rafale, as well as American F-15, F-18 and Swedish JAS 39 Gripen.

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[LiSiCyn]

Recall that the extended list of applicants includes Russian MiG-35 and Su-35, French Rafale, as well as American F-15, F-18 and Swedish JAS 39 Gripen.
Take all 5 pieces.

[Marachuh]

No, this is too rational for the Hindus. They will take only 1 each and expand the list for: typhoon, f16, su57

[Silver bullet]

Again dancing with tambourines. Admiral "Jimmy" and Air Force Commander "Acha" have yet to decide which celestial chariots to buy. They will fly on elephants, so low, low.

[Egoza]

Quote: Silver bullet

Dancing with tambourines again

Well, they will finish singing, finish dancing and decide something.
I'm embarrassed to ask, what will this aircraft carrier do in the coming rainy seasons? They are in India every year! Will it stand idle? Will the planes get wet on it?

[NEOZ]

Quote: Egoza

I'm embarrassed to ask, what will this aircraft carrier do in the coming rainy seasons?

you will ask when your country will do something like that ... well, it’s better not to be derogatory, right?

[knn54]

Bad dancer is good dad.

[Prisoner]

And they can. They love colors, do not feed bread.

[novel66]

no catapult, the list is limited

[LiSiCyn]

Quote: novel xnumx

no catapult, the list is limited

There are a lot of people, they will hold the tail.

[Kurare]

Quote: novel xnumx

no catapult, the list is limited

Those. at the moment only MiG-29K and F-18 are able to take off from a springboard

[novel66]

Su-33 still, nominally

[Kurare]

It is no longer produced. Yes, and outdated in the version in which it remained in the Russian Navy.

[prior]

You cannot fly in the rainy season - airplanes get wet wings, it is difficult to flap.
I would like to ask the Indians, why then the tests were planned for the rainy season?
Didn't they know that it rains during the rainy season ?!

[Volodin]

Quote: prior

why then the tests were planned for the rainy season?
Didn't they know that it rains during the rainy season ?!

Nooo ... They were planning to finish them by the rainy season, but there was a coronavirus ...

[LiSiCyn]

Quote: prior

Can't fly in the rainy season

It turns out that the aircraft carrier is of limited use ... At least 3 months a year, it cannot be operated.

[donavi49]

Yes standard arrangement. The delay is not for a year, but until the summer. In summer, the rainy season is sudden. Here's the problem, it never happened, and here it is again.

I'm wondering how much the Chinese will build the third, by the time Vikrant is handed over

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

It is necessary to quickly bring to mind the MiG-35, including in the deck version, and offer it to India.

[donavi49]

The funniest thing is that the MiG-35 is the rebranding of the land version of the new shipbuilder. ... For the MiG-29MM and MiG-29M2M already looked stupid at exhibitions. It's just that the MiG-29M was already there.

So, here, rather, it is necessary to start flight tests of the AFAR radar + another container to test and port it all under a shipyard for the Indians.

[APASUS]

How do our people serve in the Arctic in the rain and snow? Here, in the rainy season, wars probably end

[donavi49]

In general, USC mastered this technique even before the Indians. We sign acts of readiness for an ice drift or May, and then for another month or three we finish the order without fines. The plant is ready even tomorrow, but holidays, weather, ice conditions, etc.

[K-50]

Initially, the postponement of the start of sea trials of the Indian aircraft carrier was associated with the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. Indian officials are now saying that INS Vikrant will not start sea trials due to the rainy season.

And before that, they did not know when their rainy season occurs?

[faiver]

And before that, they did not know when their rainy season occurs?

- in our country, every year for the housing and communal services industry, the heating season comes unexpectedly in the fall, for the Ministry of Emergency Situations we have unexpected floods every year in the spring, and in the summer, forests suddenly burn, so the Indians have their own surprises ...

[TermNachTer]

How can rain affect trials? Even if it is very strong. Or will this aircraft carrier go to sea only in complete calm?)))

[Kurare]

Quote: TermNachTER

How can rain affect trials?

It will be a "fair weather aircraft carrier".

[TermNachTer]

Yeah, the Italians have already built in the last century. Then they were very sorry. Although later we got from their "pizza"))))

[fa2998]

How unexpectedly, suddenly, at this time in India, the rains began! As we suddenly have winter, and it snows.

[aleks700]

Rain season. Subject may get wet! From keel to klotik!

[Nitarius]

God .. then they have an asshole, then a sore .. always something is wrong)))) how then will they fight)? on elephants or what)? well weirdos

[notingem]

That's right, modern ships can get wet and unusable during the rainy season.