India, U.S. Navies to discuss design of next Indian aircraft carrier in this month

The top U.S. Navy official on aircraft carrier design, Rear Adm. Tom Moore, will lead a team to India later this month to advice India on the design of its next aircraft carrier.

Vikrant class aircraft carrier CGI
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“We’ve got a series of meetings with them coming up, they are interested in obviously learning from us big picture stuff about how you start from a clean sheet of paper and what are the processes used to build a carrier,” Moore said.

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