Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 17:52 IST Earlier this month, reports stated that the Navy was seeking to combine its multi-role carrier-based fighter jet procurement tender along with the Indian Air Force's own tender for 114 jets. Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet.  |  Photo Credit: Twitter Key Highlights The INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant have been built using the Short Take-Of But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) where fighter aircraft go airborne via a ski-jump slope at the end of the flight deck Boeing is hopeful that, in displaying that its Super Hornet can take to the skies from India's aircraft carriers, it will become the front-runner to win the Navy's procurement tender that Dassault, with its Rafale aircraft, is also competing for