In the gradual rise of the navies of various countries, the Indian Navy has always behaved more specially, as the earliest country in Asia after World War II, the Indian Navy does have a say in the use of aircraft carriers, but in the years after World War II, the Indian Navy has been in a more awkward position, the strength has not been strong or weak, can only be regarded as a strong regional navy, especially the Indian aircraft carrier will always have some "embarrassing" things.
Embarrassing "baptism of excrement": India's new aircraft carrier's wordless "must go"
Although India's second domestic aircraft carrier (IAC-2) "Visar" has been "arranged", but India's first domestic aircraft carrier that has been built for many years is still not in service, so this second aircraft carrier with more "exaggerated" indicators may only wait until the next generation of military fans to "reveal", in fact, after World War II, the Indian Navy used a number of aircraft carriers, there will always be some different embarrassments, not just the construction cycle is so long, let's take a closer look.
1. India's first aircraft carrier that has been grinding for 10 years to negotiate a price
In 1947, the Indian Navy only 1 cruiser and 3 frigates, India with a long coastline around the sea on three sides continued to improve its naval strength, at this time India's "suzerainty" Britain was eager to reduce the size of the navy, mainly because the number of naval ships was too large, at this time the British military economic decline has been unable to support, and the aircraft carriers that want to be sold are in India's heart, in 1948, India and the United Kingdom began negotiations on the sale of 2 aircraft carriers.
However, India only wants to buy 1, and this price is ten years, I have to say that this "ten years" of aircraft carriers is very much in line with India (India will always talk about the price for many years in many foreign arms purchases, such as the Rafale fighter), and finally in 1961, India's Vikrant officially entered service, and India also became the only country in Asia with aircraft carriers at this time, and the sea and air strength on the books also skyrocketed.
2, the era of double aircraft carriers has just arrived, turning around and becoming "no aircraft carrier"
In 1985, it was still the British to sell aircraft carriers to India to take over, at this time the United Kingdom decommissioned small aircraft carriers after the Falklands War, and sold them to India at a low price of 50 million pounds, becoming India's "Virat", the Indian Navy has since entered the era of double aircraft carriers, but in 1997, the elderly Vikrant was retired, and the Virat was facing more than 2 years of overhaul, so until 2001, the Indian Navy actually entered the "aircraft carrier-free" era.
3, the embarrassing "excrement baptism": the aircraft carrier of the white prostitute
The Indian Navy does attach great importance to aircraft carriers, has been trying its best to maintain a carrier, by 2004, Russia gave India's Admiral Gorshkov for free, becoming the hope of the Indian Navy's next generation of aircraft carriers, because although the Virat has undergone major repairs, but it does face the problem of decommissioning (decommissioned in 2017), but the "free lunch" has never been more routine, and the cost of The modification of Russia's aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft not only needs India to come out. It also rose from $1.5 billion to $2.8 billion, not delivered until 2013, becoming the Indian Navy's Vikramadiya.
The 45,000-ton aircraft carrier did bring combat effectiveness to the Indian Navy, but there were indeed quite embarrassing things: in 2016, when the Vikramaditya was docked for maintenance, there was a rupture of the toilet pipeline, and for a time, excreta and hydrogen sulfide gas gushed out, not only the scene was quite speechless, but the "excrement baptism" caused 2 deaths and 5 injuries.
4, again by the "baptism of excrement": three years and three years of India's first domestic aircraft carrier
In the process of seeing the next-door neighbor step by step towards national defense self-improvement and becoming one of the powerful navies, India also wants its own domestic equipment, this large equipment of the aircraft carrier must also be produced by itself, in order to commemorate India's first aircraft carrier, this domestic aircraft carrier is also named "Vikrant", which was started in 2005, and is expected to be launched in 2011, not much later than the Russian modified Vikramaditya, if the project progress is smooth, the two aircraft carriers have been in service. The Indian Navy will usher in a true dual aircraft carrier era for a long time to come.
However, the construction progress of the Vikrant is really "too pit", the construction cost in 2015 has exceeded 2.8 billion US dollars, and its launch date is also dragging on continuously "three years and three years", until 2021, the aircraft carrier finally tested for the first time, and is expected to be about to enter service, and the Vikrant also received the "excrement baptism" during the construction process.
In 2018, the Vikrant had already been "launched" for the third time, and as a result, an oil rig docked near it had a septic tank explosion caused by biogas, and the excrement scattered by the explosion flew to the largest target around it, and the Vikrant was drenched in excrement and received a "baptism" like the Vikramaditya.