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Indian soldiers arrived in Mongolia for some military training?
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The only way i could think is to built some kind of extension on the deck edge elevator so the Rafale is sticking out as much as needed to clear the wings. Of course what this will do to the elevator balance is another matter, at a minimum they will need a beefed up lifting/lowering mechanism and motors.
Wooden pallet or Euro pallet. If you know, you know
.Tbh, Brahmos is a bigger threat then IN carriers.
The carriers are a great bait tho. Very enticing if they ever see real combat situation.
Brahmos, among other things coming from airspace control, is enabled by airpower. India doesn't have American/Chinese space asset power, and even those aren't omnipotent.
Also, carriers employ rampages, kh-35s and, soon, brahmos-m.
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True but India has more efficient assets to launch Brahmos from Given Pakistan's geography, dont really even need the Naval assets for that tbh unless they wish to do it ar the area around Gwadar and pissing off the entire world by fucking around with global oil trade by attempting to blockade a seldom used port.
Brahmos, in land attack role, is a somewhat expensive way to deliver 300ish warhead with reasonable (not point accurate) precision. It's a good weapon, and it's shown itself very well recently, but it is not a wonder weapon.
Also, when ranges grow and missile uses Hi-lo profile, it becomes reasonably counterable with modern IADS, which Pakistan will likely get more.
Carrier can deliver such strikes cheaper, cleaner, in higher mass. Both Kh-35us and rampages(4/plane) are well proven solutions.
But carrier also does thinks Brahmos can't , or things that enable careful brahmos use.
Carrier creates bubble of airpower presence, almost by default ensuring that further away from Pakistani shores, indian MPAs and MALEs can operate during wartime, and Pakistani ones can't. This is sea superiority.
That allows India to carefully filter Indian Ocean traffic within the framework of IHL. Without it, it's limited to very risky stand off ISR shooting, that easily can hit something else.
It allows relative freedom of maneuver outside of Pakistani shore battery range, and freedom of surface missile incursion (invoking worst memories for PN, i.e. Karachi strikes).
Speaking of far more serious consequences, the fact that carriers can easily deny PN any clarity of what's going on beyond coastal airpower presence, for example, gives India a chance at disarming point blank nuclear strike from Indian boomers(depressed trajectory one).
And so on.
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This sounds they were more integrators than makers/builders, but they should have gained some experience while integrating these separate things right, prob should contribute knowledge to their next one. Although its been 10+ years so...idk if that experience is getting used anywhere right now.
Till Raf-M arrive and a new more efficient carrier design is made they are more glory/trophies to parade around vs a force multiplier, is that safe to say?
Bramhos can only be carried by Su-30. The Indian Navy's MiG-29s are nearly useless.
The carriers are just showpieces, Rafales or not. India is unlikely to ever risk them in combat.
Indian navy Mig-29Ks carry Kh-35Us and Rampages.
They did use them in both combat and left-of-launch situations in the past.