How wonderful is India's process of developing aircraft carriers?

India is a country in the South Asian subcontinent, and has a tireless pursuit of aircraft carriers. As early as 196 1 year, India had its first aircraft carrier-India became the second country in Asia (the first number was Japan) and the first country in Asia after the war.

Aircraft carrier is one of the largest, most complex and powerful weapons in the world at present, and it is a symbol of a country's comprehensive national strength. India's idea of developing aircraft carriers is good. Generally speaking, the aircraft carrier is indeed one of the few treasures that India can get. However, eggs are useless. India has spent tens of billions of dollars to build aircraft carriers for decades, leaving only jokes to the world.

India's first aircraft carrier was purchased from Britain. That's understandable. After all, India did not have the ability and technical level to manufacture super-large ships such as aircraft carriers at that time.

The aircraft carrier purchased by India is the British "Dignity" class light aircraft carrier "Hercules", which was renamed "Viklandt" after being bought back, and was immediately equipped with the Indian Navy after modernization.

"Viklandt" equipment 16 40 mm Bofors gun, the firepower is still fierce enough. However, the carrier-based fighter "Yinghai" equipped on this aircraft carrier has long been eliminated by the British Navy because of outdated technology. An aircraft carrier lacking fighters is more like a huge target moving slowly.

1986, India bought the second aircraft carrier "Competitive God" from Britain for 25 million pounds. After modification, it was renamed "Vilat" and was incorporated into the Indian Navy in May 1987.

This time, India became smarter, and the fighter plane purchased at the same time was no longer an outdated product of "facing the sea", but the most advanced fighter plane "Haiyun" in Britain at that time. Britain also began to equip this fighter in 198 1.

However, with advanced fighters, but no advanced ejection experience, "Haiyan" keeps crashing-India has always bought 29 "Haiyan" fighters, and by 2009, 18 planes crashed, with an average of 1 plane crashing every year, with a loss rate as high as 60%. However, the total loss rate of British Navy Harrier fighters in the Falklands naval battle was only 2.3%.

Learn from mistakes. India stopped buying aircraft carriers from Britain and turned to Russia. On June 5438+ 10, 2004, India signed an agreement with Russia to purchase the aircraft carrier Admiral gorshkov from Russia.

India never imagined that this was another fraudulent business. Russia's Viewpoint reported that in 20 12 years, the aircraft carrier broke down in the navigation test, and seven of the eight steam boilers in the power plant collapsed, which made it impossible to work normally.

Regrettably, although this aircraft carrier is provided by Russia free of charge, it must be modernized in the Russian North Machine Factory and equipped with Russian-made carrier aircraft. On the whole, in order to acquire this aircraft carrier, India has invested 2.9 billion US dollars, which is more expensive than the manufacturing price of the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle". With a little money, it is enough to build a large American Nimitz aircraft carrier.

Well, you can't just buy it from buy buy. India began to build its own aircraft carrier. In 2006, India officially started manufacturing the aircraft carrier "Viklandt".

Unexpectedly, this is another joke. Because this aircraft carrier actually went underground for a record three times. 201165438+February 29th, the aircraft carrier was launched for the first time. Then the aircraft carrier docked again for construction. 20 13 August 12, the second launch. Only 30% was completed at that time. 2065438+May 28th, 2005, the third launch. However, although it has been launched this time, it is too late to drag the mud out of the dock because of the high tide.

The domestic aircraft carrier India was found to have a large area of corrosion spots on the rudder and propeller hub, and was forced to return to the shipyard for partial construction of the bottom.