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The name Vikrant is a tribute to India's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. Vikrant means "courageous" in Sanskrit . [ 21 ] The motto of the ship, "जयेम सम् युधिस्पृधः" ( Sanskrit ), means "I defeat those who dare to challenge me" (English).
INS Vikrant (from Sanskrit vikrānta, "courageous") was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS Hercules for the British Royal Navy during World War II, but was put on hold when the war ended. India purchased the incomplete carrier in 1957, and construction was completed in 1961.
INS Vikrant (1961), a British-built aircraft carrier which was in service from 1961 to 1997, operated as a museum ship from 2002 to 2012 and was scrapped in 2014–2015. INS Vikrant (2013) , a first Indian-built aircraft carrier which was launched in 2013, the first of two planned for the class, and commissioned on 2 September 2022.
INS Vikrant during its undocking in June 2015. In July 2013, Defence Minister A K Antony announced that Vikrant would be launched on 12 August at the Cochin Shipyard. After its launch, Vikrant would be re-docked for completion of rest of the work including the flight deck. According to Vice Admiral Robin Dhowan, about 83% of the fabrication ...
The aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, along with her escort LST ships INS Guldar, INS Gharial, INS Magar, and the submarine INS Khanderi, executed their operations independently. On 4 December 1971, the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was also deployed and its Hawker Sea Hawk attack aircraft contributed to Air Operations in East Pakistan. The aircraft ...
INS Vishal, also known as Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 3 (IAC-3), is a planned aircraft carrier to be built by Cochin Shipyard Limited for the Indian Navy. It is intended to be the third aircraft carrier to be built in India after INS Vikrant (IAC-1) and another Vikrant -class aircraft carrier, provisionally called (IAC-2).
INS Vikramaditya with INS Vikrant during a multi-carrier operations in Arabian Sea Vikramaditya with Vikrant during an exercise with carrier battle group After commissioning, the carrier began a continuous 26-day journey of 10,212 nmi (18,913 km; 11,752 mi) to its homeport at INS Kadamba , Karwar , from Severodvinsk on 27 November 2013, with a ...
A Bréguet 1050 Alizé anti-submarine aircraft taking off from INS Vikrant. The first naval air station, INS Garuda, was inaugurated in Cochin on 11 May 1953. [5] This went hand-in-hand with the commissioning of the No.550 Squadron, [6] utilising Short Sealand aircraft [7] and Fairey Firefly aircraft [8]