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On May 14, the Indian side announced a message:
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that India will soon start building a third aircraft carrier, while adding:
"Our goal is not only to have three aircraft carriers, but we will build a fifth, a sixth, and more aircraft carriers in the future."
Listening to this sentence, you can feel their full self-confidence, and even Indian netizens said that "it must be an electromagnetic catapult", and cooperate with the Fujian ship on the mainland to conduct sea trials, which has the meaning of competing with China.
However, on the contrary, netizens from other countries, including the mainland, have many doubts about India's statement, after all, can India really fix this electromagnetic catapult so quickly? [Listen to the song]
01 Indian aircraft carrier
In fact, most netizens questioned India, mainly because of their two aircraft carriers before, which really made people have a lot of fun to watch.
The first is India's first aircraft carrier, the Vikramaditya, which, similar to the mainland, was also converted from the purchase of former Soviet aircraft carriers.
In 1999, India made representations with Russia; The renovation project was officially carried out in 2004 and handed over to the Navy after completion in 2013.
It seems that it is indeed going well, but then the aircraft carrier has been in constant trouble, often hovering in three aspects: fire, failure, and maintenance.
In 2019, when the aircraft carrier was on trial, a fire broke out directly, and Zhang Zhaozhong, the "bureau", mentioned in the program that the aircraft carrier had a great fire hazard, but he didn't expect the prediction to be successful, so the "glorious deeds" of the aircraft carrier have also become a stalk among the fans of the Continental Army.
Later, in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the aircraft carrier had a fire, and on November 27, 2020, a carrier-based aircraft crashed into the sea, resulting in the death of a pilot.
For the many fires, the Indian side even directly complained to the mainland, saying that the failure of the trial voyage was due to the poor refractory bricks imported from China, to which we said: We have no export at all.
And after the first imported aircraft carrier continued to have accidents, India also decided to build its own aircraft carrier, that is, the "Vivikrant".
The design plan for the aircraft carrier was proposed in 1999, but construction did not begin until 2005, it was officially launched in 2013, and then officially entered service in 2022, and sea trials were also carried out some time ago.
You must know that the mainland's Liaoning ship was also officially purchased in 1999, and by 2022, the mainland will launch the third aircraft carrier Fujian, and India's efficiency is really unbearable.
And this aircraft carrier is also the same as his predecessors, with frequent accidents, the most classic is the "cow dung bombing aircraft carrier" incident.
In 2018, a serious explosion occurred at the Cochin shipyard in India, affecting the aircraft carrier Wittrant, which was being repaired at the same shipyard, killing five people and injuring 11.
The reason is that there are temporary workers smoking on the drilling ship, and as a result, because it is just around the septic tank, the concentration of biogas is too high, which causes an explosion, and this biogas also spreads to the aircraft carrier, resulting in the poisoning of some crew members, so it is nicknamed "cow dung bombing aircraft carrier".
02 Confidence of the fan
Although India's first two aircraft carriers had various problems, they did not hinder their "delusional self-confidence" in the slightest.
Moreover, as the head of the "P5", Indian netizens have quite a high combat effectiveness on the Internet, and they immediately counterattacked the ridicule of netizens from various countries.
Indian netizens believe that "with the continuous rise of India's GDP, it is worth using so many aircraft carriers to strengthen its defense capabilities."
At the same time, they also said: "Maybe we can achieve this feat by 2040". And someone said that "the realization of such a plan is possible because their economy is large enough to afford it." ”
In addition to this, there are also things like "Great! "We need a nuclear-powered submarine" "The slip deck is outdated, it must be launched on an electromagnetic catapult!" "The West is already crying because of India's development."
It can only be said that in the eyes of these Indian netizens, 5 or 6 aircraft carriers seem to be worth mentioning at all, they can be built easily, and other countries have been shocked by each other.
However, when netizens in other countries saw the news, they basically took it as a joke and said, "If China said it, I might believe it."
It can only be said that in addition to Indian netizens, the vast majority of other netizens are really not very optimistic about this plan, after all, India's image in the hearts of many people is indeed quite unreliable.
03Technological breakthrough
In fact, we can see from all aspects of India that they themselves are the kind of "PPT done seamlessly, in fact, the Three Gorges flood discharge", there is always a plan made, that is, they have done it.
India's first two aircraft carriers can be said to be designed and developed in parallel, and the time when the mainland began to develop aircraft carriers is about the same, but now the mainland has reached three, and it has broken through the cutting-edge technology of electromagnetic catapult on its own.
As for India, how can a technological breakthrough be achieved with a single plan?
So far, most of the technology of India's aircraft carriers needs to rely on other countries, such as the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, although it is also purchased from other countries, but the basic construction of the aircraft carrier is almost entirely undertaken by Russia.
In addition, India has not been able to produce many of the materials used on warships independently and needs to import them from China, Russia, and other countries, but India will always refuse to import them from China for the sake of its own face, resulting in frequent problems.
As for technologies such as electromagnetic catapult and nuclear power, although Indian netizens think very well, these technologies are not something that can be mastered casually.
India can choose to buy aircraft carriers from other countries, but the problem is that there are only a few countries in the world that have aircraft carriers, and now only China and the United States can build them themselves, and if India wants to buy them, it will definitely look to the United States.
However, the United States is certainly unwilling, after all, China's aircraft carriers have been continuously developed, and if India is allowed to build advanced aircraft carriers, the threat to him may be even more serious.
And even if the United States will sell advanced technologies such as electromagnetic catapult, they themselves will not be able to grasp it, for example, electromagnetic catapult has had many accidents.
So even if the U.S. would export Indian technology, it wouldn't be so easy for them to fully grasp it and improve it.
Of course, we don't just assume that the other side can't complete it, after all, they do still have 2 aircraft carriers, although they are a little slow to build.
But for now, India's ability to support such a plan is indeed not enough, so it is not to blame for being ridiculed.
Sources of information:
[1] Huanqiu.com 2024-05-17 : Preparing to start building the third one, how big is India's "aircraft carrier ambition"?
[2] Global Times2019-04-29: The cause of the Indian aircraft carrier accident has been clarified, and the explosion of the steam pipeline has killed one person and injured nine others
[3] Huanqiu.com 2018-02-14: An explosion at the construction shipyard of India's first domestically produced aircraft carrier has killed and injured 16 people