Ghost of a flea

It is a legitimate question actually, the Indian Navy is 21 destroyers and frigates, 24 corvettes, and is not only building 2 aircraft carriers, but 8 more destroyers and frigates AND 8 more corvettes.

The Indian Navy currently has 156 ships and 35 under construction, ranking it in the top 5 in the world in total numbers. In terms of numbers of modern ships, the Indian Navy will soon have more aircraft carriers, more amphibious ships, more major surface combatants, more submarines, more ships in the flotilla, and a larger auxiliary than any Navy in Europe, including Britain, Russia, and France. True they will not be as advanced in terms of technology, but a decade of buying American could change that in a hurry for India.

If your eyes are used to seeing saree as sexy, then you may not like this on the first view, but saree is not just a glamour wear - it is a a regular wear and I really appreciate the Indian Navy trying to keep the tradition of uniform for the sailor in place and providing a place for a saree and respecting the tradition of the Indian women.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand the scope of American military power relative to that of the rest of the world. This graphic illustrates America's aircraft carriers, and those of the rest of the world. Each icon is an accurate depiction of the flight deck of the ship as seen from above, all to a common scale. Each of the middle column of ships is roughly the size of the Empire State Building.

America has twice as many aircraft carriers as the rest of humanity combined, and America's aircraft carriers are substantially larger than almost all the other's aircraft carriers. The Navy likes to call the big Nimitz class carriers "4.5 acres of sovereign and mobile American territory" -- all two dozen American carriers of all classes add up to about 75 acres of deck space. Deckspace is probably a good measure of combat power. The rest of the world's carriers have about 15 acres of deck space, one fifth that of America's.