Indian Navy's Stance is Clear: No Homemade Naval Fighters!
Indian Navy's Stance is Clear: No Homemade Naval Fighters - According to India's "Eurasia Times" website reports, the Indian Navy said recently that India's first home-made aircraft carrier "Vikrant" has been launched and completed the port test, and then will start sea trials. The Indian navy has begun to tender aircraft for the ship's domestic aircraft carrier.
Indian Navy's Stance is Clear: No Homemade Naval Fighters! It's not easy for us to train a pilot.
alienmilitary - At present the United States, Russia, and France have been involved in the bidding project of the carrier aircraft, the United States F-18 carrier fighter, Russia continues to use the MiG-29K fighter, the French Air Force is using the Rafe-M carrier aircraft to participate in the bidding. While both the F-18 and Raflin-M carriers are catapult takeoff fighters, and the Vikrant is a take-over deck, there is information that the U.S. has begun testing the F-18's take-off capability.
The participation in the bidding of all foreign fighters, and Indian Prime Minister Modi had issued a "self-reliant India" initiative, and the Indian Ministry of Defense also listed 101 kinds of military equipment in the next five years banned imports, but the Indian Navy this time "topping the bill", not even let Hindustan Aeronautics Limited LCA fighter developed shipboard version, as well as in the aircraft depth improvement model - TEDBF fighter (advanced twin-engine naval fighter project) to participate in the bidding, the Indian Navy gave a very simple reason, "we have to be responsible for our pilots, responsible for the Navy, we train a pilot costly".
According to the report, the Indian Navy has repeatedly indicated to the Indian Ministry of Defense that it will not allow Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. products to participate in the naval helicopter bidding, because the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. model developed to participate in the Indian Navy's utility helicopter NUH project not only the weight of the body exceeds the Indian Navy's requirements, but also the machine's folding and unfolding speed exceeds the Indian Navy's requirements. The Indian Navy has repeatedly blocked the choice of Indian helicopters for the Indian Navy, as the Indian Ministry of Defence intends to forcefully select Indian helicopters for the Indian Navy under the "Self-Reliance India" initiative.
The Indian Navy did not even let the LCA fighter into the bidding stage, because the Indian Navy did not recognize the performance of the LCA fighter for this reason. Earlier the Indian Navy had said that the LCA fighter's development cycle is too long, research and development ideas are too old, even if the aircraft has been improved still can not meet the requirements of the Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force had previously made a similar statement.
Experts said that the Indian Navy chooses future ships and all the three are likely to be selected, with the MiG-29K being the one currently used by India, which India has operational experience with and hence may be chosen. The Rafale M, a ship-based version of the Rafale, is the aircraft that the Indian Air Force is shopping for, while the Indian Navy is also likely to procure the aircraft. As for the F-18EF, it is currently the most powerful of the three fighter jets and has the ability to take off from the skid deck and ejection deck, which makes it possible for India to consider procuring the F-18EF for the future.
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