Indian-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant launched

Well, at least they aren't calling it a destroyer.

With the upsweap of the front does that make it a jump jet carrier? Also it looks wrong no coning tower orany command center. Are other countries carriers going this route or is it just something that India is doing?

I don't think she is finished yet..

Might be an older pic. the title said that it was launched so I assumed it was at least sea worthy.

It does appear to have a ski jump, which means they probably had some design help from the Russians and/or Chinese. They carrier is not ready for service yet. They are just celebrating launching it into the water however it has a long way to go before it is ready for service.

So, when they call tech support after something breaks, do they call America?

So everyone now has their own carrier? Gee, thanks Obama!

Here is a really weird conspiracy theory about the previous carrier called INS Vikrant:

Survival Legend[edit source]

A once popular Canadian legend that was eventually at one point even mentioned in an article by the Naval Officers Association of Canada official website claimed that the well maintained and recently refitted Bonaventure was quietly swapped for the worn out Indian carrier Vikrant in 1971 which was the ship actually scrapped, it quotes Halifax Herald reporter Mike Bembridge and Senator Forrestall who attempted to track down Bonaventure after it disappeared for two weeks only to reappear already partly disassembled where it was supposed to be scrapped. "In a 1989 Oral History Project of the Library of Parliament, Senator J. Michael Forrestall, a former Progressive Conservative Party defence critic in the House of Commons, cast doubt on the Bonaventure's supposed early demise." continuing with "One evening, Forrestall called the Indian Embassy and asked the military attaché how the Bonaventure was working out. The attaché replied, 'Splendid, we are quite pleased with it,' and then, realizing his slip, immediately hung up the phone." According to this legend the Bonaventure now actually survives as the aircraft carrier Vikrant, a decommissioned museum ship in Mumbai, India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bonaventure_(CVL_22)

This is just the launching, not the commissioning.

"Hey y'all, I'm Jer-Preet. I hear y'all are having a mess 'o trouble with your Carrier . . .did you close all the port holes, shut it down, start it back up and and open all the port holes? Yea? Is it plugged in?"

The Indians are at least way ahead of China in carrier ops. They're not a joke, not in the least.

"Hey y'all, I'm Jer-Preet. I hear y'all are having a mess 'o trouble with your Carrier . . .did you close all the port holes, shut it down, start it back up and and open all the port holes? Yea? Is it plugged in?"

You forgot to say (when the caller asks where he is calling), "I live down the block on New Delhi street, next to Bollywood" !

I'd say that's a good thing...the longer it takes China to get a proper blue ocean fleet the better. India doesn't pose nearly the threat potential as China does.

I'd say that's a good thing...the longer it takes China to get a proper blue ocean fleet the better. India doesn't pose nearly the threat potential as China does.

... and India could ... and should remain an ally of ours. They are a natural buffer and counter to Chinese power.