Recently, some foreign media claimed that the public photos taken by Chinese commercial satellites contained images of the city of Cochin, India, including the domestically-made aircraft carrier "Vikrant" that has been docked in the city’s shipyard, although it has not yet been built. Complete, but the markings on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier are simply unobstructed.
This is actually a photo recently released by Changguang Satellite's Weibo account, which often publishes various photos taken by Chinese satellites all over the world. The United States and India are no exception.
Can identify the trajectory and speed of each aircraft
Judging from the photo, the take-off point of this small and medium-sized aircraft carrier was almost extended to the stern of the ship, directly wiping into the landing runway of the aircraft carrier. This means that if the aircraft carrier is in an emergency, it is not possible to carry out operations such as landing and taking off at the same time, the arrangement of the angled deck is almost completely lost, and it is better to make a through deck!
Let us carefully analyze the flight deck of the Indian aircraft carrier.
The "Vikrant" aircraft carrier is an angled deck similar to a through-deck. The angle of the angle is not large, and the width is not large. Because the displacement of the aircraft carrier is relatively small, even smaller than that of the "Vikramatia" aircraft carrier modified from the Kiev-class aircraft carrier, the layout of the flight deck is relatively cramped and messy, and it is not even as pleasing as the flight deck of our Type 075 amphibious assault ship.
"Vikrant" has two take-off runways, converging to the top of the jump deck.
I use a red circle to indicate that the latter is used by fighters under heavy load, and the former is used under light loads. However, the two take-off runways cannot be used at the same time, and they can still only take off one by one, which is far less efficient than a catapult-type aircraft carrier. But this is not the main thing, the main thing is that both take-off lines are located in the landing area on the left side of the aircraft carrier.
What does this mean? That is, no matter which runway is used, the aircraft carrier can no longer perform fighter recovery operations.
The front is used under light load,
The latter is used in overloaded state.
Let's compare the flight decks of the second-hand aircraft carrier "Vikramatia" that India bought from Russia, and the decks of the "Admiral Kuznetsov" and "Liaoning".
We can see that the take-off runways of the "Liaoning" and "Admiral Kuznetsov" are located on both sides of the aircraft carrier's central axis, so that even the heavy-load take-off point cannot be used when the carrier aircraft is landing. The light-load take-off point can park the fighter planes on air defense duty. At this time, the Su-33/J-15 fighter jets carrying light weapons such as air-to-air missiles can take off.
Although "Vikramatia" is small in size, it still separates the light-load take-off point from the landing runway and is close to the bridge. Although it has a certain impact on landing, it at least theoretically has the ability to take off while landing.
When the “Vikrant” made in India, the tonnage of the aircraft carrier was further reduced to only 37,500 tons, and the deck space was very small. It was no longer possible to arrange two separate take-off runways on both sides. Therefore, only the two runways had to be deployed. Landing area on the left.
In this way, the operation of the aircraft carrier's deck has further deteriorated, and its take-off and landing efficiency is not even as high as that of the old aircraft carrier era using vertical/short takeoff and landing fighters!
But there is no carrier deck marking
To be honest, this design of the Indian aircraft carrier is actually very helpless. After all, with the addition of 10,000 tons of displacement, the deck space will be a lot more abundant. However, this 30,000-ton hull has been built for more than ten years, not to mention a larger hull!
Who wouldn't be able to draw a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier on the drawing board, but considering India's weak shipbuilding industry, Indian designers are also lacking rice to cook!
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