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A day in life of an Aircraft Carrier Hangar in Middle of the Ocean (Credits- Fluctus Channel)

How powerful is the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier? (Credits- Military Analysis)

What is the meatball on an aircraft carrier (Credits- Military TV)

Rebirth of INS Vikrant (Credits- India Navy)

IAC Vikrant heads out for second sea trials from Kochi (Credits- ANI News)

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Arabian sea (Credits- US Defense System)

THE NAVY’S BIGGEST FEAR CAME TRUE: AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS ‘SUNK’ BY A SUBMARINE || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

13 Action-Packed Aircraft Carriers | Smithsonian Channel

Diesel vs Nuclear Aircraft Carriers (Credits- Not What You Think)

UK carrier strike group will sail to India on its maiden deployment (Credits- HBB Defense)

WHY 11 NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SIMPLY AREN'T ENOUGH || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

Due to Russia's fault, India is now building it's own Aircraft Carriers

INS Vikramaditya (Image credits- Indian Navy) INS Vikramaditya is the flag ship of the Indian Navy. She was earlier known as Admiral Groshkov before she was inducted into the Indian Navy. Now she is the most powerful ship native to the Indian Ocean. The National Interest looks in detail the troubles that India had to face to get Aircraft Carrier from Russia which ultimately forced India to design it's own aircraft carriers. ( To read the entire article, click here .......)

The role Liaoning will play for the future within the Chinese Navy

PLAN Liaoning Carrier ( Credits- Internet Image) As China launches it's newest carrier, questions has been asked as to the role it's first Aircraft Carrier The Liaoning will play for the future. It can be seen that China is taking a cautious step in development of Carrier ops. The Diplomat takes an indepth look at the future of Liaoning with the Chinese navy ( To read the entire article, click here .......)

HOW CHINESE LIAONING COMPARES AGAINST U.S NIMITZ CLASS?

Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible To Sink ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Loren B. Thomson)

USS John C. Stennis ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Loren B. Thomson Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power.  No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering so much offensive punch for months at a time without requiring land bases near the action.  As a result, the ten carriers in the current fleet are in continuous demand from regional commanders -- so much so that extended overseas combat tours are becoming the norm.  ( Read on )

Shifting timelines of India’s Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ( Source- Russia & India Report / Author- Rakesh Krishnan Simha)

INS Vikramaditya underway ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Source- Russia & India report Author- Rakesh Krishnan Simha India wants two combat ready aircraft carriers available, on its east and west coasts, at any given time. Carrier construction, however, has not kept in step with this lofty ambition. The Cabinet Committee on Security gave approval for the construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) in May 1999, but the first of these two floating airfields, the INS Vikrant, is expected to be fully launch ready only in 2023. The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India’s report titled ‘Union Defence Services Navy and Coast Guard’ tabled on July 26, 2016, says the IAC programme has suffered delays because of drastic revisions right through the carrier’s timeline. Ship construction involves the following stages; production, keel laying, launch, outfitting, basin trials, contractor sea trials, and final machinery trials. Currently, the carrier is a

Flattop Faceoff: China's Pride vs. America's Arrogance ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Peter Navarro)

PLAN Aircraft Liaoning ( Source-Wikimedia Commons / Author- Simon Yang) Source- The National Interest Author- Peter Navarro “Anonymous sources within the U.S. Navy’s senior command have revealed that the U.S. is not concerned over any immediate threat from the introduction of China’s latest aircraft carrier in the Pacific, the Liaoning.” China’s only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a great source of national pride. It is also a grim symbol of the arrogance of an American defense establishment that largely dismisses Beijing’s under-sized training carrier as an antiquated bucket of rusty Soviet bolts.  The prevailing Pentagon opinion is not wrong, at least when viewed through the keyhole of tactics and short-term thinking. The Liaoning is indeed a refurbished Soviet carrier originally launched in 1988 that the Chinese picked up for a rusting song from Ukraine in 1998. The Liaoning is also a bit undersized. Its deck is just shy of 100 feet shorter than an Amer

What will the Indian Navy’s new carrier look like? ( Source- Russia & India Report, LENTA.RU)

INS Vikrant (R-44) under construction at Kochi ( Source- Indian Navy) Source- Russia & India Report Authors-  ILYÁ KRAMNIK, KONSTANTIN BOGDANOV, LENTA.RU Russia, France, Britain and the United States have been asked by the Indian Navy to participate in a tender and compete for a contract to develop a new aircraft carrier for it. According to some media reports, Russia and France have made it to the short list of bidders, while India is inclined towards the Russian version. Announcing the beginning of design work on a new Indian aircraft carrier, the ‘Vishal’ in 2010, then Navy Chief Nirmal Kumar Verma said the Indian Navy wants a “large aircraft carrier” from which they will be able to launch fighters, radar surveillance aircraft, and tactical tanker aircraft. Officially, the new Indian aircraft carrier ‘Vishal’ is the second ship of the ‘Vikrant’ type. However, given requirements for the project promulgated by the Indian military means building a fundamentally ne

China's Aircraft Carriers: The Ultimate Paper Tiger? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

Chinese Liaoning Aircraft Carrier ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Simon Yang) Source- The National Interest  Author- Dave Majumdar The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) aircraft carriers won’t be able to conduct blue water operations in the way the U.S. Navy’s flattops do. Nor will the PLAN have global power projection capabilities akin to those afforded by America’s fleet of supercarriers. That’s the assessment of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. “The aircraft carriers that they’re building will not have the same blue open ocean capability that our aircraft carriers have,” U.S. Marine Corps. Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the House Armed Service Committee on March 2. “Nor will it be able to execute air operations the way we use our carriers.” Chinese aircraft carriers—at least initially—will be focused on local operations in the seas surrounding China, Stewart said. Most of China’s efforts

Russia and France in running for new Indian carrier ( Source- Russia & India Report)

INS Vikramaditya (Credits- Indian Navy) Source- Russia & India Report India intends to announce a tender for purchase of a new aircraft carrier with 54 aircraft aboard, the French military newsletter TTU stated. According to the publication, the Indian Navy is seeking to purchase an aircraft carrier with a total displacement of 65,000 tons, length of 300 metres, width of 70 metres, and equipped with a nuclear power plant. According to the Russian military blog bmpd, maintained by employees of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), India is planning to build another aircraft carrier, to be called the ‘Vishal,’ in a domestic shipyard, with foreign assistance. According to the blog, the main contenders for this contract are France and Russia, because the tender conditions would stipulate compatibility of the air wing of the future ship with the aircraft already in service with the Indian Air Force and Navy. This condition among carrier-base