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Thursday, June 12, 2008

With no Carrier for MiG29s, Indian Navy to build a mock-up

Though the Indian Navy Air Station, INS Hansa, at Vasco, is to get the first of its new-generation aircraft carrier-based MiG-29K fighters later this month, the aircraft carrier they are to be based on – the Gorshkov – is still years away from being delivered to India.

So it’s stuck with planes but nowhere for them to land or take off. So what does it do? It is getting a mock-up of a flight deck built to train naval aircrew.

The full-size flight deck mock-up is to be built at INS Hansa, and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has begun talks with engineering contractors to construct it.

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