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.
Russia became the fifth country to opt out of the proposed tender for six ‘hunter-killer’ diesel-electric conventional submarines, citing an ‘unworkable’ design and timeline restrictions.
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A parliamentary standing committee on defence has recommended an unavoidable requirement of a third aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy to boost the combat capabilities in the Indian Ocean Region.
THE commissioning of two naval platforms in Mumbai over the past week — the guided-missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam and the diesel submarine INS Vela is a significant punctuation in India&rsq