The USS Gerald Ford can carry at least 90 fighter jets, and potentially more depending on the aircraft type.
When the Indian Navy expresses interest in acquiring a nuclear-powered supercarrier, they are not referring to the Fujian class but rather seek a vessel comparable in size to the USS Gerald Ford. Furthermore, for India to intervene militarily in regions like the Middle East, Australia, or the South China Sea, possessing a supercarrier of this scale is essential.
I think in all your enthusiasm you forgot to read separately and sort by reply!
My point is that you claimed,...
The under-development nuclear-propelled third aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, known as INS Vishal, will have a displacement of 75,000 tonnes and can accommodate 80-100 fighter jets onboard.
... while on the other side, India hopes, France would sell technology and let India be participate in its own new aircraft carrier and finally "work-on-third-aircraft-carrier-to-start-soon" ...
....
NOTHING is decided yet and while neither the lay-out nor size of the new carrier is fixed, it is not even clear if with or without France, alone or based on whatever's technology, you and others are already "day-dreaming" about 5-6 carriers, almost 250-300 naval fighters ... and so on!
Again, in Germany it is called a "Milchmädchenrechnung" (
) aka in short,
- a calculation based on fallacies or illusions.
- if someone does not include important parameters in his justification and thus comes to a plausible-sounding, but nevertheless wrong result
You and others are calculating how the economy might boom and in whatever years how many carriers could easily be built and maintained!
The problem is however, it is not only a dry dock large and wide enough to hold an aircraft carrier or a yard capable to built a "huge" vessel, it is a whole ecosystem of institutes, facilities, and so on. When did China start planning for its carrier project, when did they start making plans how the yards in Shanghai may look like? Remember in 2008 we already saw a model of the current yard holding an aircraft carrier in a not-then built dry dock and barely anyone imagined that today in 2024 it is reality almost exactly like the model 16 years ago!
So, where are India's yards, land based facilities for reactors, catapults, material, EM, ... what was the largest vessel ever built in India and not only warships ... and not to speak of the number of aircraft??
India needs to makes a foundation and not only plans and fancy sheets, loud claims and then always being offended, feel annoyed or insulted when critical questions are raised!
Sorry my friend, it's all only hot air in India ... nothing more at least since years.
@Bellum_Romanum