The Indian Navy keeps trying, and sometimes very nearly succeeding, at being a major blue water force in their home waters:
The Prime Minister’s Office is likely to ask the Navy why the MiG-29K fighter aircraft could not operate from the deck of INS Vikramaditya during PM Narendra Modi’s visit on Saturday, a senior government official told HT.
The Navy had to abort plans to showcase take-off and landing of the fighters on the Russian-made aircraft carrier due to turbulent sea conditions.
The bigger problem is that they bought Russian.
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