[lbo-talk] R Indian Navy on track to becoming 100% Indian

W. Kiernan wkiernan at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 17:18:48 PST 2007


uvj at vsnl.com wrote:

>

> Steven L. Robinson wrote:

>

> > This is news to me. I had no idea that the

> > Indian Navy was acquiring aircraft carriers.

> > The US uses aircraft carriers, typically,

> > when it wants to project military power a

> > long way from home (like the Persian Gulf or

> > Southeast Asia). Certainly, India has as

> > much right to carriers as the US or Russia,

> > but the question must follow: Where would

> > India be using them?

>

> Wikipedia article on aircraft carrier Vikrant

> provides the background:

>

> INS Vikrant

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Vikrant

>

> There is already a US naval base at Diego

> Garcia. Russian and Chinese Navies would

> arrive in Indian Ocean sooner or later. Oil

> tankers move through Arabian sea and Indian

> ocean towards Japan, China, Korea and Europe.

> That's one reason why India needs strong navy.

Look at a map of Pakistan and see why India wants carriers.

Yours WDK - WKiernan at gmail.com



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