well dudes.. the point of buying this is to increase the strategic relationship with the US. this "piece of junk" as one of the scholars below calls it is the BEST warship (technologically speaking) that India will have in a long time. You think it's wise trying to make our on! Half the money will be pocketed by Laloo yadav and the other morons.. and we'll make a peice of floating metal that the Vikrant is.. I've been on it.. being a naval guy myself...