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INS Vikrant ( pronounced [vikraːnt̪ə]) [20] is an aircraft carrier in service with Indian Navy. The carrier is India's fourth carrier and the first to be built in India. It was constructed by the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) in Kochi, Kerala. The namesake Vikrant is a tribute to India's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant (1961).
Sep 2, 2022 · Indian Navy. Vikrant is India's first indigenously-built aircraft carrier. India has commissioned its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, Vikrant, at a ceremony in the southern state of...
Sep 8, 2022 · India’s newest and most powerful ship, the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, was inducted into the navy last Friday. India is currently building a new generation of warships for its navy and the...
Sep 2, 2022 · India joined an elite league of the world’s naval powers on Friday, when it commissioned its first domestically built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.
Sep 1, 2022 · INS Vikrant, with pennant number R11, was the first-ever aircraft carrier that was operated by the Indian Navy. The ship was officially laid down in 1943, and was being built for the Royal Navy as HMS (Her Majesty’s Ship) Hercules when the constitution was put on hold after World War II ended.
Sep 2, 2022 · The Vikrant-class aircraft carrier has been designed by the Indian Navy’s Warship Design Bureau and constructed by Cochin Shipyard in Kochi, India. The 262m-long and 62m-wide carrier completed a series of pre-commissioning sea trials, first carried out in August 2021 and concluding later that same year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the first made-in-India aircraft carrier – INS Vikrant – calling it a “historic occassion” and an “exceptional symbol of self-reliant ...
