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INS Vikramaditya (lit. ' Valour Comparable to the Sun ') [note 1] is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy.The carrier entered into service in 2013.
In late February and early March 2024, INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya were deployed for conducting joint operations on various locations along the Indian coastline with escorts. In the first week of March, while INS Vikramaditya was hosting the first half of the Indian Navy's Biannual Naval Commanders' Conference 2024, both carriers launched ...
Krishna (left) takes command of INS Vikramaditya from Capt. Suraj Berry. Krishna has commanded five front-line ships of the Indian Navy. He has commanded the Veer-class corvettes - INS Vidyut (K48) and INS Vinash (K47), the Kora-class guided-missile corvette INS Kulish (P63) and the guided missile destroyer INS Mysore (D60).
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).
The navy has named its first home-built carrier INS Vikrant in honour of INS Vikrant (R11). The new carrier is built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, and will displace 40,000 t (44,000 short tons). [46] The keel was laid down in February 2009 and she was launched in August 2013. The ship was commissioned on 2 September 2022 by PM Narendra Modi. [47]
INS Viraat (Sanskrit: Virāṭa meaning Giant) was a Centaur-class light aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. INS Viraat was the flagship of the Indian Navy until INS Vikramaditya was commissioned in 2013. The ship was completed and commissioned in 1959 as the Royal Navy's HMS Hermes, and decommissioned in 1984. She was sold to India in 1987.
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]
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