The first independently built Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant went to sea trials

The future flagship of one of the fleets of the Indian Navy, the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, entered the first sea trials. This is reported by the Indian Ministry of Defense on its Twitter page.

The report highlights that the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant is the largest and most sophisticated warship designed and built in India. It is said to be followed by "many others."

Pride day and historical a day for India: the reincarnated Vikrant set off for its first sea trials today in the 50th anniversary year, when its illustrious predecessor played a key role in the victory in the 1971 war

- declared in the Ministry of Defense.

Proud & historic day for India as the reincarnated #Vikrant sails for her maiden sea trials today, in the 50th year of her illustrious predecessor's key role in victory in the # 1971war
Largest & most complex warship ever to be designed & built in India.
Many more will follow ... pic.twitter.com/6cYGtAUhBK

- SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) August 4

How long the tests will last is not reported, earlier in the Indian Navy announced that they intend to place an aircraft carrier in Vishakhapatnam - on the east coast. Part fleet it should come in in 2022. The aircraft carrier can carry 26 fighters and 10 helicopters on board. India chose the Russian MiG-29K as the basis for its fighter wing.

Displacement - 37 tons, hull length - 500 meters, width - 262 meters. Four LM62 + gas turbines with a capacity of over 2500 MW (80 hp) were installed. Speed ​​- up to 110 knots. Cruising range - 000 nautical miles. The crew is 28 people.

The armament consists of four Italian 76-mm artillery complexes, two Israeli-made Barak-1 and Barak-8 missile launchers, and Russian AK-630 anti-aircraft artillery complexes.

Comments

[Roma 1977]

I wang that now there will be people who will express themselves in the spirit: "Even India can, but we ...." And I will summarize in advance: Russia does not need such a ship. We need a completely different one.

[Borik]

I wang that now there will be people who will express themselves in the spirit: "Even India can, but we ...." And I will summarize in advance: Russia does not need such a ship. We need a completely different one.

Let's just congratulate the Indians on the construction of the aircraft carrier and wish them the earliest possible adoption of it, and our aviation industry on orders for fighters for their aircraft carrier ..

[Keen100]

I hope this is a joke? What deck ships can the Russian Federation supply today? Su33 (last century)? To date, there is nothing even to test them on in Russia.

[Nastia makarova]

India chose Russian MiG-29Ks as the basis for its fighter wing

[Flooding]

Quote: Roma-1977

Russia does not need such a ship

what "such"?
one that is planned to be modernized by 2023?

[Roma 1977]

No. "Kuzya" is an ersatz. Indeed, in the USSR, he was just a transitional link from "aircraft-carrying cruisers" with VTOL aircraft to classic aircraft carriers. Pen test, tp Already 30 years ago, it was clear to the leadership of the fleet that nuclear aircraft carriers of the Ulyanovsk type with a powerful air wing, steam catapults and deck-based AWACS aircraft should become a swallow of the fleet.

[Adimius38]

the drawings remained for Ulyanovsk, with sufficient funding it is possible to build.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Adimius38

the drawings remained for Ulyanovsk, with sufficient funding it is possible to build.

According to the drawings of the 70s in the modern Russian military-industrial complex (and not only the Russian one), you cannot build anything ...

[Adimius38]

in modern? project 955 "Northwind end of the 80s. project 885 “Ash since 1977. project 636 Varshavyanka in the 70s. Our military-industrial complex works exactly according to the drawings of the 70s. Of course, something was added, something was subtracted, but the main projects of those years are like the drawings.

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Adimius38

Just the same according to the drawings of the 70s, our military-industrial complex is working. Of course, something was added, something was subtracted, but the main projects of those years are like the drawings.

Yeah, the managerial Russian Federation is simply not capable of something new, the leadership is small and mind-boggling.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Adimius38

in modern? project 955 "Northwind end of the 80s. project 885 “Ash since 1977. project 636 Varshavyanka in the 70s. Our military-industrial complex works exactly according to the drawings of the 70s. Of course, something was added, something was subtracted, but the main projects of those years are like the drawings.

Work on them did not stop for 2 generations, as with an aircraft carrier.
They worked there all the time, at least a little bit.
Designers, technologists.
A certain grade of metal was brewed. The devices were produced.
The current work was going on.
She didn't stop.

And here, a project created in the 70s, on the entire technological base of the 70s, taking into account tens of thousands of Soviet allied enterprises with their internal technologies.
Which now are not and will not be.

Recycling a 70s project to "now" will cost two to three times more than creating a new project from scratch.

[ramzay21]

For the Chinese, the analogue of Kuzi serves very well, regularly goes to the BS, and Kuza was not lucky with the owner. If Ulyanovsk had been, it would have stood somewhere in the sludge along with the nuclear-powered cruiser Lazarev, or dangled half-heartedly like Kuzya.

[Civil]

The elephant, like the dragon, bypassed the old deserved bear.

[Fedor M]

Building is not a problem, the main question is WHY ?! And how to use it

[alekseykabanets]

Quote: Fedor M

It's not a problem to build

Well, yes, for the Indians, as it turned out, not a problem. And for us?

[URAL72]

It's not a problem for us to build either. Two UDCs are already under construction in Kerch, according to available information from 25 to 30 thousand tons. No less complex design and not much less in displacement and size. We will follow the progress of the work, and only then compare with the Indians. They plan to build 4 in total. Kerch can build an aircraft carrier, but personnel are needed, and they are now being trained at the construction site of the UDC. Thanks to Ukraine, - smashes its shipbuilding in vain. I think some of their shipbuilders have already strengthened our shipbuilding. And after the UDC, they can lay down an aircraft carrier - what the hell is not kidding? The main thing is that we will already have a plant with experience in the construction of aircraft-carrying ships.

[IC]

After, is it 30?

[SovAr238A]

Quote: URAL72

It's not a problem for us to build either. Two UDCs are already under construction in Kerch, according to available information from 25 to 30 thousand tons. No less complex design and not much less in displacement and size. We will follow the progress of the work, and only then compare with the Indians. They plan to build 4 in total. Kerch can build an aircraft carrier, but personnel are needed, and they are now being trained at the construction site of the UDC. Thanks to Ukraine, - smashes its shipbuilding in vain. I think some of their shipbuilders have already strengthened our shipbuilding. And after the UDC, they can lay down an aircraft carrier - what the hell is not kidding? The main thing is that we will already have a plant with experience in the construction of aircraft-carrying ships.

Oh damn..
How simple he is ...
He compares the UDC and the aircraft carrier and considers them to be identical in design.
The structure of the ship, in which the entire air wing should be stored in hangars -? Moreover, even in the event of a massive fire in the hangar, the ship must remain manageable.
Ammunition stock for 14 days for 250 sorties per day? Moreover, safe warehouses, spaced and with feed elevators.
Aviation fuel supply for the same 14 days for 250 sorties? Also safe.
The design of the ship in which, steam catapults, which need a huge amount of steam, which must not only be generated but also maintained even at full speed.
For naoa, a colossal desalination plant is needed.
They are also needed to maintain the temperature of the flight armored deck, because this very flight deck is completely in the pipelines that provide the required temperature. Cooled from jets of jet engines, and heated in northern latitudes.
Aerofinishers.
For catapults and finishers, you need not only themselves, but also premises, steam lines and much more.

Anti-torsion protection. Protection of all important components and assemblies.

An aircraft carrier is the most difficult type of ship.
Moreover, it is in the modeling and design system.
Internal Filling.
And then everything would work, even after a fire or a couple of torpedoes.

UDC next to an aircraft carrier, like a simple barge, next to a cruise superliner ...

[Fedor M]

We do not have an airplane, there is no "escort", we have no manners like the ovs

[Niko]

Quote: aleksejkabanets

Quote: Fedor M

It's not a problem to build

Well, yes, for the Indians, as it turned out, not a problem. And for us?

Well, a person apparently only news, and does not even read, but only looks

[Sling cutter]

We have no project, no shipyard, no personnel.

[Grits]

Quote: Stroporez

We have no project, no shipyard, no personnel.

... not a day ...

[Niko]

Quote: Fedor M

Building is not a problem, the main question is WHY ?! And how to use it

Build is not a problem ??? In the sense: "What should we build a house? Let's draw we'll live!" ????

[Flooding]

Quote: Civil

The elephant, like the dragon, bypassed the old deserved bear.

on a lame cow

[bayard]

Quote: Flood

on a lame cow

With our help - both in design and construction (they sent specialists), and in the supply of components. And it seems even like in the supply of ship steel.

[Flooding]

Quote: bayard

With our help - both in design and construction (they sent specialists), and in the supply of components. And it seems even like in the supply of ship steel.

Well, yes. to the world on a string. not looking for "special ways".

[bayard]

Quote: Flood

not looking for "special ways".

I would not say so, the scheme they have chosen and the angle of the flight deck are different from ours. At first it was criticized in our country, and recently, on the contrary, they even composed "Varana" with the same deck.

[Doccor18]

Quote: Roma-1977

Russia does not need such a ship. We need a completely different one.

It would be better to have a couple of these than to have nothing at all ...

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Roma-1977

Wangyu that now there will be people who will express themselves in the spirit:

You don't need to wang, you need to soberly assess your own needs and capabilities. In one thing you are right, first thought after reading:

The first independently built Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant went to sea trials

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And what should we have thought if at present Russia was left with the only ship of this class under repair? As for India, the epic of aircraft carriers for India is described here:
https://topwar.ru/163462-smi-indija-silno-pozhalela-kupiv-rossijskij-avianosec.html
We do not yet know what characteristics and handling characteristics the new aircraft carrier of India will display. However, we can state with full responsibility that for the same period of time Russia in the field of building aircraft carriers (aircraft carriers) stopped at sketches, models and reconstruction of "Admiral Kuznetsov", and India did something in nature.
==========
China, too, was SOMETHING happy with Soviet weapons and had "both tanks in the center", but it understood for itself the truth written by Vladimir Ilyich:

"Any revolution is only worth something if it knows how to defend itself."

and could.
It remains to wait until India can ... Anything can happen ...

[svp67]

Quote: Roma-1977

We need a completely different one.

What is it?

[Elephant]

Unfortunately so far - cartoon. Recent Rosstat data on GDP 0,5% in 2013-20. in the Russian Federation is not at all happy! Strength is enough only for the repair and modernization of Kuzi.

[Kuroneko]

Quote: Roma-1977

I wang that now there will be people who will express themselves in the spirit: "Even India can, but we ...." And I will summarize in advance: Russia does not need such a ship. We need a completely different one.

I'm more interested in something else. In the article, the words of the Indians:

it is emphasized that the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant is the largest and most complex warship, designed and built in India.

Let's give the floor to Wikipedia:

The light aircraft carrier Vikrant is intended to replace the aircraft carrier Viraat, which is improving its resource. This ship should become the flagship of the western group of the Indian Navy. The aircraft carrier was built on the basis of a joint project 71 Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, developed jointly with the Russian Nevsky Design Bureau, as well as with French and Italian help.

I don't know about the French and Italians, but has the Nevskoe PKB moved to India now? The minimum design was ALREADY NOT in India, especially since the project of the Soviet TAVKR was taken as a basis.

[Jacket in stock]

We need another. Yes. And not alone.
But even this we cannot now.

[Roma 1977]

The construction of just such a ship in the Russian Federation would be sabotage. Better none than this. ZY I am not saying that the ship is bad, it is suitable for India, but not for the Russian Federation.

[Rostislav Prokopenko]

corps - India; air group - RF; ZUR - Israel; artillery - Russia and Italy.
Not a fig to yourself a team hodgepodge ... And whose engines?

[Bashkirkhan]

General Electric LM2500 from the USA.

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: Rostislav Prokopenko

... Whose engines?

General Electric LM2500 is a naval gas turbine engine used on ships of the Navy in 24 countries of the world. For 2008, about 870 General Electric LM2500 engines of various modifications were manufactured.

[Alex777]

Quote: Rostislav Prokopenko

Not a fig to yourself a team hodgepodge ... And whose engines?

General Electric.

[vtiper]

Do not forget that the Nevsky Bureau helped to design :)

[Grits]

Quote: vtiper

Do not forget that the Nevsky Bureau helped to design

And what else is left for them to do, if in our country their work is not needed by anyone. Everyone wants to eat

[Evil 55]

Eight after launching, the vessel entered the first sea trials ... Even for Russia, these are over-the-limit construction periods.

[Bashkirkhan]

Quote: Angry 55

Eight after launching, the vessel entered the first sea trials ... Even for Russia, these are over-the-limit construction periods.

Come on, when was the last time 37 kilotons of ships were launched in Russia?

[Evil 55]

There are opportunities, there is no monarch's will or necessity .. https://portnews.ru/digest/22255/

[jayich]

If we count nuclear icebreakers, then a couple of years ago.

[Bashkirkhan]

An icebreaker is a specialized vessel. The ship is intended for military navigation only.

[jayich]

Any icebreaker is an auxiliary ship of the Navy in a threatened period, on which a place for armament is reserved.
Any nuclear icebreaker, and even more so with a displacement of 33000 tons, is primarily shipbuilding competencies for the construction of such large ships with a NUCLEAR power plant, let me remind you that the cruisers of Project 1144 have a displacement of about 25000 tons, in our country, at the moment, tremendous experience has been accumulated in the construction of ships and vessels , Admiral Nakhimov will not be tested this way next year, Siberia has been put into operation, it follows that the shipbuilding industry can build the 1144.2m project from scratch, and this is the level, since we can build a hull with a nuclear power plant and saturate it with weapons plus already there is a well-developed project that is relevant today, and taking into account the commissioning of zircons and tomorrow, those years for sure for 30 years. Plus, at the Baltic plant, one of the stocks is empty after the descent of Chernomyrdin (25000 tons for a minute), so that, apart from the will of the country's leadership, there are no technological barriers to the construction of new Eagles. The last of the aircraft carriers built by our country in 2013 was Vikramaditya, which successfully serves in the Indian Navy. All the hitch is the order and the loot.

[Kushka]

Quote: Evil 55

Eight after launching, the vessel entered the first sea trials ... Even for Russia, these are over-the-limit construction periods.

The well-known expression “Russians take a long time to harness, but they go fast” in the age of informatics looks inferior, and in the age of black PR it also allows manipulation. This is how to say that Tuesday is the day of the week, instead of saying that the week is seven days (list), and Tuesday is the second, etc. I would like to receive FULL information:
A complete list of countries in the world, how many harnessed in each and how quickly they go. Can anyone have a reference?

[cormorant]

India chose the Russian MiG-29K as the basis for its fighter wing.

As a result, India's MiG-29K is 2 times more than ours and the difference will grow.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: cormorant

As a result, India's MiG-29K is 2 times more than ours and the difference will grow.

There is already a MiG-35, why did the Indians not order its ship version?
After all, the 35 is more advanced than the MiG-29K. Therefore, it would be more logical to buy a MiG-35K with all the bells and whistles that we have already put there. (And how much more you can shove!)
In addition, it is possible to attach the Su-75K to its deck over time.

[Flooding]

Quote: Boa constrictor KAA

There is already a MiG-35, why did the Indians not order its ship version?

I do not know to what extent the MiG-35K is ready.
If at all they undertook to develop it.
For what funds and on whose order?
The MiG doesn't seem to be fattening much.
And is there any point in scattering when they recently announced the start of work on the fifth generation?
But India would have to learn how to operate the MiG-29 without accident before switching to a more advanced version of the aircraft.

[Kushka]

Quote: Sergey Ivanov_18

India brought an aircraft carrier to sea trials, Japan a new submarine, the Chinese probably thoughtful

They have this national hobby - to sit lost in thought by the river. And sooner or later, the corpse of the enemy will float along it.
У

[vtiper]

it is with the Japanese

[Kushka]

Do they also have rivers there? Although, there may be streams. Just kidding, thanks for the clarification, I was wrong.

[Zx_spectrum]

The Russian defense industry can build, but there is no money yet.
We help Syria, build houses for them, arm them.
We help Donbass with humanitarian aid.
We help N-Karabakh build and strengthen defense.

Therefore, there is not enough money for the construction of an aircraft carrier group.
In the future, he will build a new generation of scientists and engineers, where our current leaders will not be.

[Doliva63]

Quote: vtiper

it is with the Japanese

This is the Chinese. Lao Tzu, sort of.

[Normann]

We looked at the aircraft carrier of the "Kiev" type, but where is the weaponry? Although it will go to counteract Pakestan ... China laughs, given the composition of the Chinese Navy.

[TermNachTer]

To get out then went out, but the main thing is to come from the tests on his own, and not in tow.

[Seal]

Quote: Borik

Let's just congratulate the Indians on the construction of the aircraft carrier and wish them the earliest possible adoption of it.

Only you need to congratulate carefully so that China does not hear. Otherwise he will be offended. Indeed, for confronting Pakistan, India does not need an aircraft carrier in FIG.

[Gunther]

Quote: Kushka

They have this national hobby - to sit lost in thought by the river. And sooner or later, the corpse of the enemy will float along it.

Quote: vtiper

it is with the Japanese

))))
this is Sean Connery in Rising Sun (1993): If you sit by the river long
enough, you will see the body of your enemy
floating by ”, the rest of the“ ancient ”lao dzi are resting.

[Tonpengof]

Yes class, good luck to them)

[military pensioner]

We can only rejoice for the Indian sailors, because our USC does not have the ability to build such ships in the ocean zone ...

[Denis812]

If the Russian Federation wanted, it would undoubtedly have built an aircraft carrier. It's not even a question of technical feasibility. The question is: "Why?" Now there is no military-economic expediency. All tasks can be solved by other means. Is that for the sake of the very school of building aircraft carriers and work on the corresponding aircraft