{"id":24905,"date":"2020-07-14T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2020-07-14T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:37:38","slug":"indian-navy-to-get-new-carrier-based-jet-by-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-navy-to-get-new-carrier-based-jet-by-2032\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy to get new carrier-based jet by 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Navy will get the new twin-engine aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by 2032 and it will be a replacement for the Russian MiG-29K carrier jets in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navy currently operates Russian-origin carrier INS Vikramaditya and expects to have the first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-I) Vikrant operational by 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a second carrier to come in, the Navy is already evaluating a global tender for 57 carrier-based twin-engine fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last January, the naval Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) successfully completed arrested landing and take-off on board Vikramaditya and has since undertaken several trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deck-Based Fighter<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>DRDO has offered to develop a twin-engine deck-based fighter for the Navy based on the experience of the carrier landing. With the successful deck-landing, they decided to drop the naval TEJAS Mk-2 and move on to the twin-engine jet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new jet being developed by DRDO should be ready by 2026, Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh stated last December. The design specifications have since been finalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navy currently has 45 Russian MiG-29K aircraft and its officials had stated that there will not be enough aircraft to operate from both carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navy is currently evaluating the responses to the Request for Information (RFI) from Boeing with its F-18 Super Hornet and Dassault Aviation with its Rafale jets. Both companies had stated that their jets can operate off the ski-jump of Vikramaditya and in future the Vikrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Navy will get the new twin-engine aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by 2032 and it will be a replacement for the Russian MiG-29K carrier jets in service. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Navy currently operates Russian-origin carrier INS Vikramaditya and expects to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":24906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[257],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-indian-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24907,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}