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Look forward to seeing some pics.
Also, I am looking for more up to date pictures of the Vikrant. I heard it rumored that they had lifted the Island onto the carrier and would love to find pictures of her with the island installed.
i had posted long ago onthis thread that the island had been lifted,you can get satellite images using ISRO's bhuvan
i would have posted them but i don't know how to download images in bhuvan.
here's a link to bhuvan,just type cochin harbour terminus.
PS the satelite images from bhuvan are not half as good as google earth,but it defnitely shows the island.
i haven't got any images,,its a bit surprising actually that bhuvan which has blocked out all exclusive economic sea zone and all military bases forgot to block the vikrant.
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Well...I can post the images.
I saw them some time ago on another forum and they just did not look right to me somehow.
So, I decided to do a little analysis and put a to scale image of the Vikrant line art and the design of the island up against those images, oriented in the same way.
Here's what I came up with.
IMHO, something is not right about those images...even taking into account what would defintely be containers and out buildings on the deck. Perhaps they changed the design of the island...but I would doubt iyt. Space is at a premium and the designs to date looked good. That island looks too large, and offset too far away from the port side of the deck.
That last part could possibly be attributed to the angle of the satellite...but the overall length is not.
That's why I really want to see actual photos from someone at or near the yards. I do hope we can some actual photos.
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Well...I can post the images.
I saw them some time ago on another forum and they just did not look right to me somehow.
So, I decided to do a little analysis and put a to scale image of the Vikrant line art and the design of the island up against those images, oriented in the same way.
Here's what I came up with.
IMHO, something is not right about those images...even taking into account what would defintely be containers and out buildings on the deck. Perhaps they changed the design of the island...but I would doubt iyt. Space is at a premium and the designs to date looked good. That island looks too large, and offset too far away from the port side of the deck.
That last part could possibly be attributed to the angle of the satellite...but the overall length is not.
That's why I really want to see actual photos from someone at or near the yards. I do hope we can some actual photos.
could it be the vikramaditya getting a refit,island suits hers,she might be getting some refits lke her air defence system,since we don't know when this image has been taken,heard a lot of barak 1's were ordered.
but currently she is not in kochi,she has to host her anniversary party at another place.
here's the only pic we have of her island
No, the Vikramaditya does not work either. Island is further forward and not nearly as long as what is shown there, and the shape is different too.
Here's that comparison again, but this time with the overhead of the Vikramaditya in there to scale:
Hard to say what that was. The size and shape do look more like the Vikrant...but the island is all wrong, and thebow does not seem quite right either.
could it be that cochin shipyard has removed her out of the dock for some other work and the sat image is showing something else?
but that doesn't fit either ,we would have photos of her like last time.
anyway heres the old animation released by the directorate of naval design,but that vid shows f15's as well,but does it help when the carrier is seen from the sky,the superstructure is biggger at the top than at the base as the vid might be indicate,do you thats the case?
[video=youtube;K3JdEPuMBgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3JdEPuMBgs[/video]
but that doesn't fit either ,we would have photos of her like last time.
anyway heres the old animation released by the directorate of naval design,but that vid shows f15's as well,but does it help when the carrier is seen from the sky,the superstructure is biggger at the top than at the base as the vid might be indicate,do you thats the case?
[video=youtube;K3JdEPuMBgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3JdEPuMBgs[/video]
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Well...I can post the images.
I saw them some time ago on another forum and they just did not look right to me somehow.
So, I decided to do a little analysis and put a to scale image of the Vikrant line art and the design of the island up against those images, oriented in the same way.
Here's what I came up with.
IMHO, something is not right about those images...even taking into account what would defintely be containers and out buildings on the deck. Perhaps they changed the design of the island...but I would doubt iyt. Space is at a premium and the designs to date looked good. That island looks too large, and offset too far away from the port side of the deck.
That last part could possibly be attributed to the angle of the satellite...but the overall length is not.
That's why I really want to see actual photos from someone at or near the yards. I do hope we can some actual photos.
It may be that the satellite was viewing the ship from an angle, but from directly behind the ship. This would make the apparent length shorter (where does the front deck truly end in the photo?), and the aft face of the island could be blurred into the island's top, making it look longer in comparison.
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