{"id":203485,"date":"2022-09-03T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203485"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:14:05","slug":"india-needs-to-get-cracking-on-the-next-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikrant-is-a-necessary-but-not-sufficient-condition-to-offset-chinas-string-of-pearls-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-to-get-cracking-on-the-next-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikrant-is-a-necessary-but-not-sufficient-condition-to-offset-chinas-string-of-pearls-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs to get cracking on the next aircraft carrier: INS Vikrant is a necessary but not sufficient condition to offset China\u2019s string-of-pearls threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>India needs to get cracking on the next aircraft carrier: INS Vikrant is a necessary but not sufficient condition to offset China\u2019s string-of-pearls threat\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a03rd<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 – Security and associated issues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Context: The article discusses about challenges faced by Indian in Indian Ocean Region and benefit of indigenous warships to Indian economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant constructed will boost India\u2019s maritime power and sea control capabilities.<\/p>\n

What are the problems being faced by Indian navy?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The country has been without an operational aircraft carrier for the last two years. Its only carrier INS Vikramaditya inducted from Russia in 2013 has been undergoing a major repair-and-maintenance cycle.<\/p>\n

India needs at least three carriers<\/strong> while one undergoes the periodic maintenance, the other two can be operationally available for the eastern and western seaboards.<\/p>\n

Another problem is associated with the serviceability-maintenance of the jets acquired for the carriers.<\/p>\n

India had acquired 45 MiG-29Ks from Russia to operate from the deck of INS Vikramaditya.<\/p>\n

The navy is now looking to import 26 new jets to meet the shortfall till the indigenous twin engine deck based fighter is ready in around 10 years.<\/p>\n

What are the maritime threats to India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> There has been increasing threat from China in the Indian Ocean Region. China has world\u2019s largest navy of 355 warships and submarines. It can deploy 7-8 vessels in the IOR at any given time. 2)<\/strong> It is building two more carriers at an astonishing speed. There will be a Chinese CBG moving in the IOR on a near permanent basis in the future. This will erode India\u2019s traditional maritime combat edge in its own strategic backyard.<\/p>\n

Which is more useful a shore based field or aircraft carriers?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

IOR is getting increasingly militarized along with the expanding military bases therefore it is necessary for India to deploy aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n

Fighters jets taking off from shore-based airfields will have relatively limited combat ranges.<\/p>\n

Carrier battle group (CBG) is a floating airfield capable of moving 400-500 nautical miles a day.<\/p>\n

CBG also provide operational flexibility on a \u2018here and now\u2019 basis to launch air defence operations, anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, and also strikes on land-based targets.<\/p>\n

Land based airbases can also be more vulnerable to pre-emptive strikes compared to the mobile airfields on CBGs.<\/p>\n

CBGs have the inherent capability to prevent emerging threats at standoff ranges.<\/p>\n

How indigenous warships help the economy?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

One shipyard job leads to creation of 5-6 jobs in ancillary industries.<\/p>\n

Over 500 Indian firms and 100 MSMEs contributed towards building INS Vikrant which has a 76% indigenous content.<\/p>\n

It generated employment opportunities for almost 15,000 personnel across various segments which included direct employment of 2,000 personnel at the Cochin Shipyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cIndia needs to get cracking on the next aircraft carrier: INS Vikrant is a necessary but not sufficient condition to offset China\u2019s string-of-pearls threat\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a03rd September 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 – Security and associated issues Context: The article discusses about challenges faced by Indian in… Continue reading India needs to get cracking on the next aircraft carrier: INS Vikrant is a necessary but not sufficient condition to offset China\u2019s string-of-pearls threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-203485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704778058},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}