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Apart from questions about the operational efficacy of a successor to INS Vikrant, the Navy must also contend with prioritising military equipment as the defence budget faces a crunch.
Questions of employability aside, the eye-watering cost of a new aircraft carrier has become increasingly difficult to justify given the existing materiel shortfall within the Navy and Air Force in the face of ever-shrinking defence budgets.