India Can Make N-Powered Aircraft Carrier: Kakodkar -- Times Of India
MUMBAI: Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Anil Kakodkar has said that India is capable of designing and developing nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. He was speaking to reporters after delivering the 15th Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture on ‘Nuclear Energy in India: Way Ahead’ in Mumbai on Tuesday. Asked whether India has such capability, he said, ‘‘Yes.’’
Kakodkar, however, declined to comment on whether AEC was designing a light water reactor for a submarine. ‘‘This isn’t the time to answer this question. You will be told at the right time,’’ he said. During the launch of INS Arihant, India’s first nuclear-powered submarine, PM Singh said sanction had already been given for the development of more such submarines.
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My Comment: Sure .... they can build nuclear aircraft carriers, the support ships, the thousands of trained seamen, the carrier aircraft and the pilots to fly them .... yup .... no problem .... it will be ready next week.
Sighhhh .... I doubt it.
But a good question was raised by the Times of India reporter .... is India developing and designing a light water reactor for a submarine. This will raise the eyebrows of military strategists in Pakistan, China, Australia .... and of course .... the U.S.
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It's not a big deal. India has already laid the keel for building its own indigenous aircraft carrier. Shipbuilding costs in India are probably among the lowest in the world. The constraints for building a nuclear reactor for a surface ship are less than those for building one for a submarine.
Such ships would not be traveling all around the world to far-flung places as the US Navy likes to do. Instead, they would merely be patrolling the northern part of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, relatively nearby.
Just because India says it has the capability to build a nuclear-powered carrier doesn't mean that it will do so, as regular diesel-powered ships could meet the needs quite well. The official was simply responding to a question posed by a journalist.
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