The news that India is seeking to build a second domestic aircraft carrier has made countries moved by it, and they have expressed their desire to be a good friend of India, Russia has just come up with a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier program, the United States has sent the newly baked electromagnetic catapult, and France does not intend to be left behind, and also said that it can help. Since everyone is so enthusiastic, it is natural to make the project change with each passing day, and now India has given it a nice name: the aircraft carrier Vishar.
New plan
At present, the plan is: aircraft carriers with displacement of 65,000-70,000 tons can carry 55 carrier-based aircraft, adopt conventional power systems, and are equipped with electromagnetic catapult and interception systems. It is also reported that its design target has been expanded to 80,000 tons to have the ability to take off and land more large carrier-based aircraft. As for whether to abandon nuclear power, it is still to be studied, with the Indian tradition, until the day of construction, everything can be changed!
India's initial plan is to start launching its second domestic aircraft carrier, the 80,000-ton Visar, in 5 years, or 2022. In order to achieve this goal, India is accumulating efforts to no longer only consider design and design, but also how to build. After all, the design can ask for help, the equipment can be imported, but the assembly work still needs to be done by yourself!
India's existing gantry cranes can no longer meet the 80,000-ton requirement
India is building its first aircraft carrier, which has accumulated some experience, but to build a larger aircraft carrier, then the existing conditions are not enough, one of which, there is no need for a thousand-ton gantry crane, and there is currently no one. It is said that it can be imported, and there is only one in the world that can provide it: China, even if China answers to buy, India does not want to buy, then encountered a good opportunity: britain to deal with the gantry crane in hand!
Reports of Chinese gantry cranes shipping to Britain that year
Originally, in order to build the "Queen Elizabeth II" class aircraft carrier, the United Kingdom invested heavily in ordering a large gantry crane from China, with a main beam height of 68 meters, spanning 120 meters, and a maximum lifting capacity of 1,000 tons of large components, which cost 12.2 million pounds alone.
The Uk used it to complete the project
At present, it is installed in the British Rosesay Shipyard, because the aircraft carrier has been built, the dream of a large aircraft carrier, and now after completion, it is planned to sell it to avoid an "unfair advantage" over other British shipyards, which has aroused great interest in India, regardless of its origin, it is bought from the British, and it is intended to be reselled by the British to it, it is said that it may cost more than $40 million, that is, it is sold to India to earn another sum, almost in vain and with interest.
Even if you buy it back as you wish, you may not be able to achieve the goal, building a modern generation of large aircraft carriers is not simple, large gantry cranes can only be regarded as one of the required equipment, but also need a larger dock, as well as larger cranes, transport trailers, etc., may be able to make a long list.
In the state of Indian shipbuilders, it may be necessary to rebuild shipyards to have specific hardware conditions
At present, India can ensure that these basic hardware equipment are all equipped with quite a problem, this is only the beginning, the work behind is more headache, but unfortunately there is a long way to go! India's ambitions are very large, but its industrial strength is very general, and it is too difficult to develop rapidly in a short period of time, perhaps because of calming down, first down-to-earth!