Hydrogen and bioethanol-driven subs fight in the Indian Ocean defencenews.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from defencenews.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
India has worked hard to modernize its forces, but can it really compete with Beijing?
Here s What You Need to Know: New Delhi has two dangerous neighbors to keep an eye on.
India occupies one of the most strategically important locations in the world. A short distance from the Persian Gulf, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, India has been an important hub for ideas, trade and religion for thousands of years.
That geographic positioning has its disadvantages. India is faced on two sides by powerful, nuclear-armed countries it has fought wars with China and Pakistan.
India’s most formidable rival is China, with whom it fought a short, sharp border war with in 1962. China’s growing military has transformed it from a mainly ground-based threat to a multifaceted one with powerful assets in the air, at sea and even in space.
Times are Changing: Are Super Aircraft Carriers Still Survivable?
Advances in missile and submarine technology put in question whether such large and expensive ships are survivable when operating within striking distance of an enemy coastline.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Today’s supercarriers will likely serve on for decades. However, the new threats arrayed against them, combined with the limited range of the current generation of carrier-based aircraft, suggest they may prove too vulnerable to operate within striking distance of near-peer opponents.
On May 31, 2017, the U.S. Navy accepted into service USS Gerald Ford, the first of up to four new fleet carriers. The massive 1,100-foot-long vessel will eventually embark around sixty aircraft, including twenty-four F-35 Lightning stealth fighters and another twenty to twenty-four FA-18 Super Hornets. It features a faster elevator for loading munitions, and new electromagnetic launch catapults (EMALS) and arresting hooks
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