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Subject: US Offer of E-2 Hawkeye To India Turned Down
Softwar    9/6/2007 9:12:16 AM
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070906/43/6kdyv.html India says 'not yet' to another assault ship from US By IANS Thursday September 6, 10:38 AM Washington, Sep 6 (IANS) The United States has offered a second assault ship like the USS Trenton to India, but for the time being the Indian Navy has said 'no' to another acquisition. According to the India Strategic defence magazine, Indian naval officers have examined the USS Nashville, listed in the US Navy as an Austin-class Amphibious Transport Dock, 'but that there was no movement on the US offer'. The Indian Navy has also said 'no' to the highly sophisticated Northrop Grumman's Hawkeye II -- the all-weather carrier-based Tactical Airborne Early Warning Aircraft. The reason is that its launch and recovery system is different from what would be available on board India's indigenously developed carriers or INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov), which India is buying from Russia. Indian Navy carriers have ramps for short-take-off-and-landing while the US carriers use steam-powered catapults and arrester wires.
 
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french stratege       9/6/2007 3:39:08 PM
E2C could be used on a STOBAR carrier.The real reason if that India feel few interest to pay 300 m$ for a plane where they don't have software source code.
 
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Phaid       9/6/2007 4:38:24 PM
The notion that E-2Cs couldn't safely operate from Vikramaditya due to lack of catapults is http://navy-matters.beedall.com/masc.htm">old news:

The E-2C Hawkeye had demonstrated an ability to launch from a low incline ski-jump built ashore at NAS Patuxent River during the 1980s and it was thought that adding arrestor wires to the CVF design (i.e. changing it to a STOBAR configuration) might still allow its adoption for MASC given some modifications (e.g. strengthened nose wheel) - and the necessary finance. ...  However the MOD showed no interest in the Hawkeye/STOBAR idea, perhaps sensibly as in 2004 and early 2005 Northrop Grumman did further research on a ski-jumping Hawkeye 2000 in the context of a proposal to the Indian Navy, and while insisting that this was perfectly feasible had to admit that the required changes for STOBAR operations would reduce the aircraft's capabilities somewhat compared to the standard model. The Indian Navy was decided that it was unconvinced about the concept, citing concerns such as the disastrous effect of a single engine failure during the full power take-off run.

And that's pretty much that.  STOBAR has lots of nasty limitations and this is just one of them.
 
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Phaid    whoops   9/6/2007 4:40:30 PM
The notion that E-2Cs couldn't safely operate from Vikramaditya due to lack of catapults is old news:

The E-2C Hawkeye had demonstrated an ability to launch from a low incline ski-jump built ashore at NAS Patuxent River during the 1980s and it was thought that adding arrestor wires to the CVF design (i.e. changing it to a STOBAR configuration) might still allow its adoption for MASC given some modifications (e.g. strengthened nose wheel) - and the necessary finance. ...  However the MOD showed no interest in the Hawkeye/STOBAR idea, perhaps sensibly as in 2004 and early 2005 Northrop Grumman did further research on a ski-jumping Hawkeye 2000 in the context of a proposal to the Indian Navy, and while insisting that this was perfectly feasible had to admit that the required changes for STOBAR operations would reduce the aircraft's capabilities somewhat compared to the standard model. The Indian Navy was decided that it was unconvinced about the concept, citing concerns such as the disastrous effect of a single engine failure during the full power take-off run.

And that's pretty much that.  STOBAR has lots of nasty limitations and this is just one of them.
 
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