Sell Karunguni also no taker! ABNN Modi's Emeritus Aircraft Carrier Junk rotten iron scrap! GPGT!

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https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...raat-finds-no-takers/articleshow/72862015.cms



As scrap, retired Naval aircraft carrier Viraat finds no takers
The e-auction followed the Navy's decision to sell the oldest aircraft carrier as scrap as plans to convert the iconic ship into maritime museum-cum-marine adventure centre didn’t find any takers.
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The ship holds the Guinness Books of record for being the longest serving warship of the world.
MUMBAI : Retired Indian Naval Ship (INS) Viraat remained unsold at the e-auction here on Tuesday. The e-auction followed the Navy’s decision to sell the oldest aircraft carrier as scrap as plans to convert the iconic ship into maritime museum-cum-marine adventure centre didn’t find any takers “Since the ship remained unsold as the bids were not on the expected rates, fresh e-auction will be conducted again,” said an official privy to the developments. Interested bidders were required to pay a pre-bid earnest money deposit of Rs 5.30 crore. The e-auction commenced at noon, continued till late evening before being called off.

Last November, the Maharashtra government cleared a proposal to convert the longest-serving aircraft carrier into a commercial business complex. According to the proposal submitted by the state government to the Union Defence Ministry, the planned Viraat museum would be constructed by laying a concrete foundation in the sea and the location is around seven nautical miles from the shore at Nivti rocks in Sindhudurg district.

A high power committee, headed by the chief secretary was formed to finalise the terms and conditions for tenders to select a private entrepreneur. “The project was supposed to be developed along with a private partner but there were no takers, hence the proposal was scrapped and the same was communicate to the defence ministry, following which it decided to scrap the ship was taken,” added the official from the state secretariat privy to the details. The Grand Old Lady as its fondly called, Viraat has served both the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy. In April, 1986 , the then Congress government entered into an agreement with Britain to acquired HMS Hermes for 63 million dollars. After refits and new equipments being fitted on Hermes it was commissioned at Plymouth as INS Viraat in 1987.

The ship holds the Guinness Books of record for being the longest serving warship of the world. Under the Indian flag, the ship clocked more than 22,622 flying hours by various aircraft and spent nearly 2252 days at sea sailing and 5,88,287 NM (10,94,215 KM). This implies Viraat has spent seven years at sea, covering the entire globe 27 times.

Since her inception she has a total of 80,715 hours of boiler running. She had played a major role in the Operation Jupiter in 1989 in Sri Lanka, after which she was affiliated with Garhwal Rifles and Scouts of the Indian Army in 1990. Her major participation was seen during operation Parkham in 2001-02 where India and Pakistan were engaged in a standoff post terrorist attack on the Parliament.







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印度海军拍卖退役航母失败：当废铁卖都没人要

印度海军拍卖退役航母失败：当废铁卖都没人要



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[环球网军事报道]当地时间12月17日，印度海军在线拍卖作为废品出售的“维拉特”号退役航母（INS Viraat），但未能找到任何买家。稍后将再次举行新的拍卖。此次拍卖之前，曾有计划将这艘印度最古老的航母改造成海上博物馆，但也没有找到任何接收者。

印度海军的“维拉特”号航母资料图。其前身是英国的“竞技神”号。
据印度《经济时报》网站18日报道，在周二举行的电子拍卖会上，由于没有出现任何接收者，印度海军未能成功售出退役航母“维拉特”号。该航母仍未售出预期的价格，将再次进行新一轮拍卖。有兴趣的竞标者需要支付530万卢比保证金。拍卖从中午开始，一直持续到深夜，最终被取消。
去年11月，马哈拉施特拉邦政府提出一项将这艘航空母舰改建为商业设施的提议。但是未获得印度国防部同意。
今年1月，安得拉邦也曾向印度国防部提交了一份详细的项目报告书，计划将“维拉特”号改装成浮动的博物馆兼星级酒店，作为旅游景点停泊在维萨卡。但是也被印度军方否决。
“维拉特”号航母前身是英国皇家海军的“竞技神”号，印度在1986年以6300万美元收购获得。据称，该航母是世界上服役时间最长的军舰。

“维拉特”号的前身生——英国皇家海军“竞技神”号航母

印度海军的“维拉特”号航母资料图。


Indian Navy fails auction of retired aircraft carrier: no one wants to sell scrap iron
Indian Navy fails auction of retired aircraft carrier: no one wants to sell scrap iron
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[Global Military Report] On December 17, local time, the Indian Navy auctioned off the retired aircraft carrier "INS Viraat" (INS Viraat) as a scrap, but failed to find any buyers. A new auction will be held later. Prior to this auction, there were plans to transform the oldest aircraft carrier in India into a maritime museum, but no recipient was found.

资料 Indian Navy's "Villat" aircraft carrier data map. Its predecessor was the British "Sports God".

The Indian Economic Times website reported on the 18th that at an electronic auction held on Tuesday, the Indian Navy failed to successfully sell the retired aircraft carrier Verat because there were no recipients. The aircraft carrier has not yet sold the expected price and will conduct another round of auctions. Interested bidders need to pay a Rs. 5.3 million deposit. The auction started at noon and lasted until late at night, eventually being cancelled.

In November last year, the Maharashtra government proposed a proposal to convert the aircraft carrier into a commercial facility. However, the consent of the Indian Ministry of Defence was not obtained.

In January of this year, Andhra Pradesh also submitted a detailed project report to the Indian Ministry of Defence, planning to convert the "Villat" into a floating museum and star hotel and parked in Visakha as a tourist attraction . But it was also rejected by the Indian military.

维 The "Villat" aircraft carrier was formerly the Royal Navy's "Sports God" and was acquired by India in 1986 for $ 63 million. The carrier is said to be the longest serving warship in the world.

前 The predecessor of the "Villat"-the Royal Navy aircraft carrier "Sports God"

资料 Indian Navy's "Villat" aircraft carrier data map.

 

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https://www.newindianexpress.com/na...rier-viraat-e-auction-on-tuesday-2077347.html




Decommissioned aircraft carrier 'Viraat' e-auction on Tuesday
The e-auction will be conducted from 12.16 p.m. The magnificent ship holds a Guinness World Record for being the oldest serving warship in the world.

Published: 17th December 2019 11:33 AM | Last Updated: 17th December 2019 11:33 AM | A+A A-

Aircraft Carrier INS Viraat (File Photo | EPS)




By IANS

MUMBAI: The decommissioned aircraft carrier, 'Viraat', which was ordered to be scrapped six months ago by the government, will be e-auctioned here on Tuesday.
The e-auction - by Metals and Scrap Trading Corporation (MSTC) - will be conducted from 12.16 p.m. The magnificent ship holds a Guinness World Record for being the oldest serving warship in the world.
Originally commissioned into the British Royal Navy as 'HMS Hermes' in 1959, she joined the Indian Navy in 1987 and was rechristened as 'INS Viraat' and after a distinguished service of nearly three decades to the country, she was finally decommissioned in 2017.
Hailed as the 'Grand Old Lady' who lorded over the high seas, she spent around 2,250 days at sea, sailing more than 588,280 nautical miles or 1.08 million km, before she was gracefully retired and decommissioned.
This will make 'Viraat' the country's second popular aircraft carrier in five years - after the first one, 'Vikrant' which had an emotional connect with the whole nation - was similarly scrapped and auctioned in April 2014.
Subsequently, 'Vikrant' metal parts were used to manufacture a particular brand of motorcycles.
In July, the Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik had announced the decision to scrap 'Viraat' in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
He said that the 'Viraat' could not be given over to any state government as none could come up with a complete, self-sustaining financially viable proposal.
Accordingly, in view of safety, security and other considerations, it was decided to scrap the aircraft warrior after holding discussions with the Indian Navy.
It may be recalled that states like Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh were keen to take over and preserve the 'Viraat' by converting it into a permanent dry or floating maritime museum for domestic and global tourists.
Maharashtra was prepared to invest in a public-private partnership for the proposed maritime museum which would be docked off Sindhudurg, around 550 kms south from Mumbai.
However, there were no takers for the proposals by both the states from the private sector and culminated in the decision to scrap for which the e-auction is being held on Tuesday.
The erstwhile 'INS Viraat' had joined the Indian Peace-Keeping Operations in Sri Lanka during the Kargil War, and several fighter aircraft and combat helicopters have operated from its decks.
However, most of her sensitive equipments like the weaponry and sensors, its main machinery and auxiliaries, the huge propellers, sophisticated communication and navigation systems, life-saving systems, etc have been 'cannibalized', or retrieved prior to the e-auction.

 

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Brazil's Aircraft Carrier To Be Auctioned Off After Years Of Disappointment
An effort is underway to try to turn the ship into a museum, while the fate of the Brazilian Navy's carrier-based Skyhawk jets is now in question.
By Joseph TrevithickSeptember 26, 2019

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Brazil's Ministry of Defense has reportedly begun the process of auctioning off its retired aircraft carrier, the ex-São Paulo, with bids starting at $1.275 million, roughly a tenth of what the country paid to buy the ship from France nearly two decades ago. The Brazilians formally decided to decommission the flattop two years ago, which has left the fate of the country's AF-1 Skyhawk carrier-based combat jets in limbo ever since.
The Brazilians officially put the carrier up for sale on Sept. 23, 2019, according to Airway1. Originally commissioned in the French Navy as the Foch in 1963, she was the second of two Clemenceau class aircraft carriers and remained in service in France until 2000. Brazil purchased the ship that same year for the bargain price of $12 million. At the time of São Paulo's retirement, there were only two other countries in the world, the United States and France, still operating catapult-assisted takeoff and barrier assisted recovery (CATOBAR) configured aircraft carriers.
Brazil's acquisition of São Paulo was part of a broader push on the part of the country's Navy to field a carrier-based fixed-wing tactical jet capability. This effort dated back to the 1980s and the elimination of rules that had said the Brazilian Air Force was the only service that could operate fixed-wing aircraft of any kind.

Brazilian Navy
The São Paulo at sea.
This previous inter-service arrangement had meant that the Air Force had been responsible for flying the S-2 Tracker anti-submarine warfare planes embarked on the Brazilian Navy's first aircraft carrier, the Minas Gerais, while the Navy flew helicopters from that ship's deck. This ship, another CATOBAR type, was a former U.K. Royal Navy World War II-era Colossus class carrier that Brazil had acquired from the United Kingdom in 1956.
In 1986, Minas Gerais' catapult broke and, what with having to rely on the Air Force for fixed-wing aircraft, the Navy elected not to fix it, bringing fixed-wing operations on the ship to an end for more than a decade. In 1995, Brazil began work to install a replacement catapult, acquired from Argentina after that country retired its aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo, another Colossus class ship.
Two years later, Brazil signed a deal with Kuwait worth $70 million to acquire 20 single-seat A-4KU and three two-seat TA-4KU Skyhawk combat jets to form the core of the Brazilian Navy's new carrier air wing. These aircraft became known as AF-1s and AF-1As in Brazilian service. You can read more about these aircraft, all of which are assigned to the service's 1st Interceptor/Attack Squadron (VF-1), in detail here.
The Skyhawks, which arrived in Brazil in 1999, only served on Minas Gerais briefly, with the Brazilian Navy retiring that ship in 2001. The aircraft were better suited to the larger deck of the São Paulo, regardless.

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AF-1 Skyhawks on board São Paulo in 2002.
Unfortunately, São Paulo did not live up to expectations. Though the Brazilian Navy only officially retired São Paulo in 2017, that ship had already been in a largely inactivate state for more than a decade. An explosion in the steam system powering the ship's catapults in 2004 killed one sailor and prompted a major overhaul that spanned between 2005 and 2010.
The total cost of the upgrades and improvements, which included extensive work on the ship's propulsion and electrical systems, updated catapults, a replacement Naval Tactical Data System, a new electronic support measures system, and more, along with a host of general maintenance, was around $19 million. This then required extensive sea trials and evaluations, which began in 2010. The ship was supposed to return to the fleet in 2013, but suffered a deadly fire in 2012, prompting new plans for more upgrades. By the end of 2016, São Paulo was still undergoing repairs and there were reports that it might take another decade to get the ship fully operational again.
By the time the Brazilian Navy finally decided to just retire the ship in 2017, it was the world's oldest commissioned aircraft carrier. In the better part of two decades that the flattop had flown the Brazilian flag, she had spent just 206 days at sea – less than a year in total – but had still managed to sail nearly 54,025 miles, according to Airway1. She had conducted less than 600 launches of AF-1 jets.

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A Brazilian Navy AF-1 prepares to launch from São Paulo in 2002.
The decision to retire the ship has left the future of the AF-1s in limbo. In 2009, the Brazilian Navy had hired the country's preeminent aviation firm Embraer to conduct a deep modernization program on nine of the 20 AF-1s and the three AF-1As for a total cost of approximately $140 million. The resulting AF-1B and C variants, respectively, would have significant improvements, including all-new glass cockpits, hands-on throttle and stick (HOTAS) controls, digital radar warning receivers, and advanced pulse doppler EL/M-2032 radars from Israel's Elta. The jets would also be able to carry new air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions and modern targeting pods. You can read more about the upgrade program here.
Embraer only delivered the first and second AF-1Bs to the Brazilian Navy in 2015 and 2016, respectively. VF-1 got its initial two-seat AF-1C just last year. Whether Brazil decides to acquire the full fleet of AF-1B/C aircraft could be dependent on whether or not another carrier is in the country's future. Brazil did acquire the ex-HMS Ocean, a helicopter carrier, from the United Kingdom in 2018 for approximately $115 million. However, the AF-1s cannot operate from this ship, now known as the Atlantico.

Brazilian Navy
The first AF-1C Skyhawk
There had been talk in the past about Brazil buying an entirely new aircraft carrier, as well as acquiring new carrier-based combat jets in the form of a navalized variant of the Saab Gripen. The Brazilian Air Force is the only foreign customer, so far, for the latest Gripen E/F variant. However, given the state of Brazil's economy and more pressing naval modernization priorities, these proposals seem to have firmly taken a back seat in the Brazilian Navy's future planning.
As time goes on, if VF-1's pilots cannot keep up their proficiency – if it hasn't lapsed already – in carrier operations in some way, such as exchanges programs with the U.S. or French naval aviation communities, the unit could increasingly take on the appearance of a land-based tactical jet unit. This, in turn, could increasingly call into question the value of maintaining the squadron and its diminishing fleet of Skyhawks, which no other element of the Brazilian military flies.
Short of the Brazilian Navy buying something like second-hand AV-8B Harrier jump jets to embark on Atlantico, which would then also need significant upgrades to be able to support those aircraft, the country's fixed-wing carrier aviation capabilities may again be coming to an end for the foreseeable future.

Brazilian Navy
Brazil's helicopter carrier Atlantico, the ex-HMS Ocean.
As for the future of the ex-São Paulo itself, is also uncertain, if Brazil's experience of trying to get rid of Minas Gerais is any indication. Naval associations in the United Kingdom tried and failed to raise enough money to buy that carrier and turn it into a museum ship. In 2003, the flattop appeared for sale on Ebay via a seller who claimed be a legitimate intermediary for the Brazilian government.
The auction site eventually pulled down the listing, which had reached a bid of nearly $8.9 million at the time, because it violated rules against selling military ordnance in the terms of service. A local auction in Brazil also failed to find a buyer and, in 2004, the carrier went to an ignominious end in a shipbreaking yard in India.
An organization known as the Sao Paulo Institute-Foch is now hoping to buy the ex-São Paulo and convert it into a floating museum, according to Airway1. It remains to be seen whether this will come to pass. The public auction in Brazil will reportedly occur tomorrow, Sept. 27, 2019.
If you're in Brazil this week and have at least $1.275 million to spare, you can try to make your own bid to become the next owner of this vintage aircraft carrier.
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