U.S. Navy sharing basics of aircraft carrier design with India

By Justin Doubleday / September 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM
The U.S. Navy's program executive office for aircraft carriers is helping the government of India understand the basics of how to construct an aircraft carrier after the two governments reached an information exchange agreement earlier this year. Rear Adm. James Shannon, the director of the Navy's International Programs Office, said the United States and India are in a "constant discussion phase to help them understand how we do the business" of building aircraft carriers. India wants to build its own...

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