印度4W顿级首艘国产航母将以2W吨排水量下水(转载)

　　Navy floats out first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
　　
　　海军的第一艘国产航母浮起出坞
　　KOCHI, December 30, 2011
　　
　　科钦，2011年12月30日电
　　
　　S. Anandan
　　
　　K. A. Martin
　　
　　Once back at building bay, ship will be launched at a 20,000-tonne displacement: naval source
　　
　　来自海军的消息称：一旦回到建造工段后，船舶将以20000吨的排水量下水。
　　
　　The first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) of the Navy was floated out at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), at a low-key event attended by senior shipping and naval officers on Thursday.
　　
　　海军的第一艘国产航母（IAC）于周四在科钦造船有限公司（CSL）出坞下水，资深的海运官员和海军军官们低调出席了仪式。
　　
　　Among those present were Union Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas; Rear Admiral K.N. Vaidyanathan, Director General, Naval Design; and Commodore K. Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of CSL.
　　
　　出席仪式的有：海运联合会（造船联合会？）书记 K. Mohandas；Vaidyanathan 海军少将，主任，海军设计师；还有K. Subramaniam 海军准将，以及CSL的 和总经理。
　　
　　The floating ceremony was followed by a meeting to review the progress in the work being done on the aircraft carrier, a 40,000-tonne fleet air defence platform of the Navy, which will be named after the legendary INS Vikrant. The Union Shipping Secretary told The Hindu that the work on the carrier was progressing, albeit not as per schedule, as so many variables were being factored into the extremely complex construction process.
　　
　　在浮起出坞仪式之后，是一个回顾航母工程进度的会议。海军的这艘40000吨的舰队防空平台，将继承传奇航母“维克兰特”的名字。海运联合会书记告诉《印度教徒报》，在航母上的工作正在取得进展，尽管未能按照进度时间表实现，因为如此之多的变数被计入极其复杂的施工过程中。
　　
　　The official added that the commissioning of the carrier, the keel of which was laid in February 2009, was likely to overshoot its original timeline.
　　
　　这位负责人还说，这艘在2009年2月铺设龙骨的航母，海试的日期很可能落后于其原来的进度时间表。
　　
　　According to a senior naval functionary, the carrier was ‘technically floated out’ as the shipyard needed the dry-dock for ‘some other commercial work.’ “The carrier has taken on about 14,000 tonnes. She would now undergo interior outfitting, including the laying of pipes before being dry-docked again in the latter half of next year for integration of the propulsion gear-box, generators and the like,” he told The Hindu.
　　
　　据一位资深的海军军官称，航母是“技术性地浮起出坞”，因为船厂需要干船坞用于“一些其它的商业工作”。他告诉《印度教徒报》：“航母已有约14000吨自重，她现在将接受内部舾装，包括铺设管道。然后会在明年下半年再次进入干船坞，以整合推进用的变速齿轮箱、发电机之类，等等。”
　　
　　As earlier reported by The Hindu, a delay in the delivery of gear boxes and associated systems had considerably slowed down the construction of the prestigious carrier. Naval officers, however, put on a brave face saying that the phase in which teething trouble was encountered was over. “The gear box is ready and undergoing trials, at last. The underwater package is all lined up but the rest of the equipment has to be identified and tested,” said a naval source.
　　
　　《印度教徒报》早些时候报道，齿轮箱以及相关系统的交付延迟，大大放慢了这艘久负盛名的航母的建造进度。然而海军军官们以勇敢的表情说，遇到的这些萌芽期的困难已经解决了。来自海军的消息称：“齿轮箱已准备就绪，正在进行最后的测试。水下摄影机（？）均已对准，但其它的设备仍需认证和测试。”
　　
　　After facing initial hiccups due to paucity of supply of steel, the carrier project got the much-required thrust with the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) and the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) fashioning carrier-grade steel indigenously.
　　
　　由于初期钢材供应短缺导致工程面临暂停之后，航母项目得到了国防冶金实验室（DMRL）的大力推动和印度钢铁管理局（SAIL）加工制造的国产航母级钢材。
　　
　　After the steel supply stabilised, problems pertaining to quality gearbox put the brakes on the project. Elecon Engineering Company Limited, a Gujarat-based firm which had earlier manufactured CODOG marine gear boxes for the Navy’s Shivalik-class stealth frigates, found itself in the red attempting to make the carrier’s huge main gearboxes. “They have been able to overcome the difficulties with support from a German firm,” said a Navy officer.
　　
　　钢材供应稳定后，变速箱的质量问题又踩了项目的刹车。古吉拉特邦的 Elecon 工程有限责任公司此前为海军的什瓦利克级隐身护卫舰制造过CODOG（柴燃联合动力）船用齿轮箱。该公司努力尝试（？这一段怎么翻）制造航母的巨大主齿轮箱。一个海军军官说：“他们在一家德国企业的支持下，已经能够克服这些困难。”
　　
　　
　　造半截就下水了，印度果然有下水的自由