1st indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant delivered to Navy
New Delhi, July 28 In a historic step, the country’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant was today handed over to the Navy by Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL). 262 metres long carrier 45,000 tonnes Weight 4 Gas turbines...
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New Delhi, July 28
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In a historic step, the country’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant was today handed over to the Navy by Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL).
262 metres long carrier
45,000 tonnes Weight
Advertisement4 Gas turbines totalling 88MW power
28 knots maximum speed
Rs 20,000 cr Cost
Launched in 2013
- 1999: Work on the ship’s design begins
- Feb 2009: Keel laid
- Dec 29, 2011: Carrier floated out of its dry dock
- Aug 12, 2013: INS Vikrant launched
- Dec 2020: Basin trials over
- Aug 2021: Sea trials begin
A formal induction and commissioning will be done in the next few weeks. The carrier has been designed by Navy’s in-house Directorate of Naval Design.
The IAC project has been progressing in three phases of contract between the Ministry of Defence and the CSL, concluded in May 2007, December 2014 and October 2019, respectively. With this, India has joined a select group of nations having the niche of indigenously designing and building an aircraft carrier.
Vikrant has been built with high degree of automation for machinery operation, ship navigation and survivability. It has been designed to accommodate an assortment of fighter jets and helicopters.
The ship would be capable of operating 30 aircraft comprising MiG-29K fighter jets, besides copters like Kamov-31 and MH-60R.
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