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WION Ground Report: An on-board look at India’s first-ever indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant (Credits- WION)

Rebirth of INS Vikrant (Credits- India Navy)

IAC Vikrant heads out for second sea trials from Kochi (Credits- ANI News)

The INS Vikrant Successfully Tested And Proved Satisfactory (Credits- The Buzz)

Indian Navy To Get Aircraft Carrier Vikrant By End 2021 (Credits- World Affairs)

Due to Russia's fault, India is now building it's own Aircraft Carriers

INS Vikramaditya (Image credits- Indian Navy) INS Vikramaditya is the flag ship of the Indian Navy. She was earlier known as Admiral Groshkov before she was inducted into the Indian Navy. Now she is the most powerful ship native to the Indian Ocean. The National Interest looks in detail the troubles that India had to face to get Aircraft Carrier from Russia which ultimately forced India to design it's own aircraft carriers. ( To read the entire article, click here .......)

Shifting timelines of India’s Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ( Source- Russia & India Report / Author- Rakesh Krishnan Simha)

INS Vikramaditya underway ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Source- Russia & India report Author- Rakesh Krishnan Simha India wants two combat ready aircraft carriers available, on its east and west coasts, at any given time. Carrier construction, however, has not kept in step with this lofty ambition. The Cabinet Committee on Security gave approval for the construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) in May 1999, but the first of these two floating airfields, the INS Vikrant, is expected to be fully launch ready only in 2023. The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India’s report titled ‘Union Defence Services Navy and Coast Guard’ tabled on July 26, 2016, says the IAC programme has suffered delays because of drastic revisions right through the carrier’s timeline. Ship construction involves the following stages; production, keel laying, launch, outfitting, basin trials, contractor sea trials, and final machinery trials. Currently, the carrier is a

What will the Indian Navy’s new carrier look like? ( Source- Russia & India Report, LENTA.RU)

INS Vikrant (R-44) under construction at Kochi ( Source- Indian Navy) Source- Russia & India Report Authors-  ILYÁ KRAMNIK, KONSTANTIN BOGDANOV, LENTA.RU Russia, France, Britain and the United States have been asked by the Indian Navy to participate in a tender and compete for a contract to develop a new aircraft carrier for it. According to some media reports, Russia and France have made it to the short list of bidders, while India is inclined towards the Russian version. Announcing the beginning of design work on a new Indian aircraft carrier, the ‘Vishal’ in 2010, then Navy Chief Nirmal Kumar Verma said the Indian Navy wants a “large aircraft carrier” from which they will be able to launch fighters, radar surveillance aircraft, and tactical tanker aircraft. Officially, the new Indian aircraft carrier ‘Vishal’ is the second ship of the ‘Vikrant’ type. However, given requirements for the project promulgated by the Indian military means building a fundamentally ne

Revealed: Details of India's Second Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)

INS Vishal ( Credits- You Tube screen capture) Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda India’s second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2), the INS Vishal, the second Vikrant-class carrier, is slowly taking shape. Recently, the Indian Navy outlined the specifications of this carrier in a letter of request issued to shipbuilders worldwide. Many of the details, including the tonnage and the physical dimensions of the carrier, are in line with older expectations. For example, the Vishal will displace 65,000 tonnes—25,000 tonnes more than the first indigenous carrier, the INS Vikrant. The Indian Navy’s Naval Design Bureau clarified other features: the carrier will travel at 30 knots, a hair above the Vikrant, and come in at a length of 300 meters, longer than the 262 meter Vikrant. The Navy’s letter of request also outlines plans for the carrier to field between 30 and 35 fixed-wing combat aircraft and 20 rotary wing aircraft. In many ways, though this carrier will be the

India Is Building Second Homegrown Aircraft Carrier ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Zachary Keck)

The CGI of INS Vikrant ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Srikar Kashyap) Source- The National Interest Author- Zachary Keck India’s Navy has outlined the some of the specifications for a second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2) in a letter of request to global shipbuilders. According to several Indian newspapers, last week India’s Navy sent out a Letter of Request to four global shipbuilding companies asking for help in designing India’s second indigenous aircraft carrier. The LoR specifies that India would like to build a 300-meter long aircraft carrier that displaces 65,000 tons. The Navy also said that the ship should be able to travel at 30 knots. In addition, the LoR says that the aircraft carrier will carry 30-35 fixed wing combat aircraft and about 20 rotary wing aircraft. In contrast to India’s existing aircraft carriers, which utilize ski-jump launch systems, the LoR for IAC-2 says the ship will have a catapult launched but arrested landing

India's INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier Successfully Undocks ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)

INS Vikrant ( Image credits- India MOD) Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda Marking a symbolic milestone, India’s INS Vikrant, its first indigenously built aircraft carrier and the first of two planned Vikrant-class carriers, undocked at Cochin Shipyard. As of this week, the INS Vikrant, with a completed hull and internal structure, is free-floating and will go into static and dynamic trials soon. The vessel was officially launched in August 2013 when it completed the first phase of its construction. Its undocking marks the successful conclusion of its second phase of construction. The carrier, which first left its dry dock in December 2011, is expected to have fully completed construction by 2016 and to be commissioned in 2017. As Franz-Stefan Gady noted for The Diplomat some weeks ago, the Vikrant‘s launch was anticipating delays. The completion of phase two of construction was scheduled for late May — the undocking took place just two weeks off schedule. I

India to Launch First Homegrown Aircraft Carrier ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Zachary Keck)

India's New Air Craft Carrier Vikrant  ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- Indian Navy)) Source- The National Interest Author- Zachary Keck India is set to launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier later this month, according to local media reports. On Thursday The Hindu reported that India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, will be launched from Cochin Shipyard on May 28. “All major equipment has gone into the vessel, which has now acquired the shape of an aircraft carrier, with a finished hull. Barring a bit of ongoing work on the superstructure, structural work is all over and the internal compartments have all been welded in,” an official at shipyard was quoted as saying. The INS Vikrant will displace 40,000 tons and feature a short-take off but arrested recovery (STOBAR) system, rather than the catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) launch system used by current U.S. aircraft carriers. The ski-slope launc

Make In India- INS Vikrant

CG of INS Vikrant  ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Indian Navy) In continuation of our weekly series "Make In India", today we feature the INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier. Designed in India,  the ship will be the combat ships ever designed in India. Designed by the Indian Navy's Naval design Bureau, two ships are planned in the series. The first INS Vikrant will be a STOBAR configuration at over 40,000 tonnes with a compliment of Mig-29 sea borne combat aircrafts and also  Kamov Ka-31 helicopters. Later the LCA Navy will also join the ship. The second ship will be of a bigger design with a displacement of more than 65,000 tonnes and will feature CATOBAR design and will include AMCA navy and assorted platforms which may also include E-2 AEW Aircrafts. This ship may be nuclear powered. It is in design stages and production will start later this decade. It will probably be the first time America will be helping with the EMAILS launch system. These ships and t