India's Newest Carrier

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Cool avatar Windy.

[Windigo]

Cool avatar Windy.

thanks... not sure if I found it while I was oogling Fine! or WTF??? is with this snow already?


How'd you fair down in windy city?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I aint goin out in that shit. Nice and warm here.

[Windigo]

I aint goin out in that shit. Nice and warm here.

spent the AM shoveling out the street parking, a path to the back alley parking/garbage cans and the backyard... (dogs need places to pee)

helped a few people get out too...

I watched one woman high centre herself pushing snow in her CRV ... had to curb that inner voice that snorted in contempt about 'women drivers'

meanwhile my Philippine neighbours are learning fast, leaving their car wwipers up over night, sanding/salting the walkways, shovelling snow on to their property and not onto the street where it just makes it difficult for them to pull into and out of their spaces

[Airborne Rifles]

Back to talking about the carrier...I hadn't realized how much the Russians have been modifying the Kiev class carriers for the Indians.  They took this:



An turned it into this:



The new incarnation can carry up to 24 Mig 29Ks, not an insignificant amount of air power.

[bob48]

wow - some transformation!

[Windigo]

wow - some transformation!

indeed, extreme makeover edition

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Back to talking about the carrier...I hadn't realized how much the Russians have been modifying the Kiev class carriers for the Indians.  They took this:



An turned it into this:



The new incarnation can carry up to 24 Mig 29Ks, not an insignificant amount of air power.

Why not have 2 full length runways, one on each side of the island? One for takeoffs, one for landings.

[GDS_Starfury]

have you ever seen Indians drive?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Seriously, in general, why don't carriers have that configuration?

[GDS_Starfury]

thats getting a little to big for an easily deployed ship.  keep in mind that all US Navy ships have there size limited by both the Suez and Panama canals.

[Gusington]

Interesting I did not know that...

[Windigo]

haven't you read that bit about how ancient roman roads determined the size of the space shuttle?


http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

[GDS_Starfury]

the technology is there to make a carrier the size of a supertanker but why?  its to big, it couldnt get anywhere quicky and you would have to many eggs in one basket.

[mirth]

Back to talking about the carrier...I hadn't realized how much the Russians have been modifying the Kiev class carriers for the Indians.  They took this:



An turned it into this:



The new incarnation can carry up to 24 Mig 29Ks, not an insignificant amount of air power.

That's amazing. Just looking at it, you could have easily convinced me it was refurbed Kuznetsov-class.