Of the Indians can demand to take possession of the ship as is. They can tow it to Mubai and do the work themselves. They will learn more that way, anyway. The way they are going, this ship is not going to be a useful weapons platform at the end of the day, so they might as well gain some experience from the process.
Here is a concept for the Indians. The problem with carriers is that the aircraft have a high top speed, but need to take off and land slowly. All of the heroics are designed to increase that take off/landing speed as much as possible, so the aircraft design can be optimized as much as possible for high speed flight.
But what if you forget about supersonic flight, or even near-supersonic flight? A carrier capable of launching large numbers of tough turbo-prop fighters, attack aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft with a top speed of about 300 mph could be a very useful military asset for providing ASW coverage for your fleet and for power projection against many lesser powers. It would not be able to take on a US carrier task force, but what can, these days?
If you look at the problem, you have aircraft flying at 800 mph and missiles flying at 3000 mph. The speed differential between a F-18 and a missile and a slow turboprop and a missile is more or less the same. For missile engagements, it is more important that the aircraft be numerous, have good coordination and radar, and be as stealthy as possible. These requirements can be dealt with much more readily in a package designed with a 300 mph top speed, which gives you more payload, a more convenient shape, longer endurance, lower unit cost and much simpler maintenance.
I know the military is in love with things that go fast, but there may be a place for a different approach. Designing a carrier around a 80 knot stall speed would be a much, much simpler operation.
Lots of good points there. Let’s take my last post and yours, design a birdfarm, sell it to the Pentagon, and make lots of money!