Indian Naval Aviation Considering Major Reforms in 2021

摘要

Hideki Tojo, the man reported to have ordered the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1940, a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and later prime minister, proved the importance of the naval air arm in wars. He later remembered: "The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American Admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese Navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks." During World War Ⅱ, the world witnessed what was soon to become the future of wars. Japanese naval air power launched 353 aircraft from six heavy aircraft carriers in a surprise military strike destroying or crippling 19 US ships. Indian Naval aviation has come a long way from pitting its sole aircraft carrier, INS VIKRANT in 1961's "Operation Vijay" liberating Goa from Portuguese colonial rule, to gearing up for modernisation through some of its major programmes in 2021.