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To: ken5050

It’s more or less a non-starter for a host of reasons. For one, how long can a 50+ year old ship serve with a customer?? Two, US carriers require a crew of more than 5,000 personnel. That’s almost three times the complement on the current Indian carrier. It will take a few years for any navy to build up a core of thousands of sailors, technicians and of course pilots for a US-style CVN. Three, few Indian naval bases can take a ship the size of the Enterprise.

The only country which will likely build similar ships is China but that will take at least another decade.


11 posted on 12/06/2010 8:37:45 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
OK, thanks..that makes sense..two follow ups, if you will..

Are there any design/security concerns with giving the nuke plant to another country? Assume that the Indians, recognizing all of the problems you stated, still decided that they wanted to take a shot at making it work..theyw ere willign to risk it...assuming that we'd provide crews to train them..would you be inclined to give them the carrier? Again, strategically it's gonna make the Chicoms think..

12 posted on 12/06/2010 8:49:43 AM PST by ken5050 (Palin/Bachman 2012 - FOUR boobs are better than the two we have now!)
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