A few months ago China displayed its Carrier Battle Group (CBG) the Laioning aircraft carrier (built around Ukraine’s Varyag) and very soon India commissioned its latest aircraft carrier the INS Vikramaditya, a 40,000 ton 284 metres long and 60 mt high aircraft carrier. In an apparent show of strength and China blue water weakness the INS Vikramaditya was accompanied from Sevmash shipyeard in Northern Russia to Karwar by INS Trikand, a Talwar class frigate, INS Delhi destroyer, and INS Deepak, the rest of the Western Fleet later joined the cavalcade, which included the smaller aircraft carrier INS Viraat, two Delhi class destroyers, three Trishul class stealth frigates, a Godavari class frigate and other several offshore vessels.
