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title: "How Hot Is the Indian Navy For The F-35?"
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# How Hot Is the Indian Navy For The F-35?

[![](https://www.livefistdefence.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/a-1.jpg)](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o_no4M2xEPY/TQTPp2iALgI/AAAAAAAAL2Y/JHr79rlfiyc/s1600/a.JPG)The **Lockheed-Martin F-35** has popped up in what the Indian Navy says is an official impression of India's indigenous aircraft carrier, currently under construction in Kochi. Bit of a boo-boo though -- the picture above is not India's under-construction carrier, it's actually the Royal Navy's CVF (thanks Tim, for pointing that out!). [Here's the Indian Navy's document](http://indiannavy.nic.in/NavalAvnWebsite/005Mother-TheFlatTop.pdf) [PDF] on aircraft carriers that has the lifted image above -- and [here's the original source image](http://media.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/SHIP_CVF_Concept_lg.jpg). Don't know why the Navy had to use this image when it has some pretty impressive artwork of its own.

Boo-boo aside, does this say anything about how hot the Indian Navy is for the F-35? The platform's B and C variants [have been pitched to the Navy](https://www.livefistdefence.com/indian-navy-fighter-rfi-lockheed-to/) in response to an RFI earlier this year. Other aircraft on offer are navalised variants of the Gripen and Eurofighter, and the F/A-18E/F. An [earlier impression](https://www.livefistdefence.com/artists-impression-of-new-ins-vikran/) of the carrier featured Boeing F-15s operating from the ship's flight deck.