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Thursday, January 20, 2011

India will have two aircraft carrier strike forces by around 2015

INS VikrantNavy is confident India will have two full-fledged aircraft carrier battle groups (CBGs) by 2015 or so despite slippages in ongoing refit of the 44,570-tonne Admiral Gorshkov in Russia and construction of the 40,000-tonne indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) at Cochin Shipyard.

"We are definitely looking at deploying two aircraft carriers by the middle of this decade,'' said assistant chief of naval staff (foreign cooperation and intelligence) Rear Admiral Anil Chawla on Wednesday.

Navy, in fact, can stretch the operational life of India's solitary aircraft carrier, the 28,000-tonne INS Viraat, for another 10 years if the need arises, said Rear Admiral Chawla, who himself has commanded the 50-year-old warhorse.

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