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02/09/22 05:28 AM IST

INS Vikrant

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  • The country’s steelmaking giant, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), a Maharatna PSU, has supplied the entire DMR grade specialty steel for the nation’s first indigenously built Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant. 
INS Vikrant 
  • SAIL has supplied about 30000 Tonnes of the specialty steel for building this first swadeshi Aircraft Carrier for Indian Navy which will be commissioned on 02ndSeptember, 2022 at Cochin Shipyard Ltd. 
  •  This indigenous aircraft carrier is a proof of Country’s technical acumen and engineering skills.
  • This demonstration of India’s self-sufficiency (Atma Nirbhar) to produce an aircraft carrier warship will reinforce the country’s defence indigenization programs and ‘Make in India’ campaign.
  • India acquired the Vikrant from the United Kingdom in 1961, and the carrier played a stellar role in the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh.
  • In 2014, INS Vikrant, was broken down in Mumbai.
  • INS Vikrant was followed by the Centaur-class carrier HMS (Her Majesty's Ship) Hermes, which was rechristened in India as INS Viraat and served in the Indian Navy from 1987 to 2016.
About Aircraft carrier 
  • An aircraft carrier is "a large ship that carries military aircraft and has a long, flat surface where they take off and land."
  • These floating air bases are equipped with a full-length flight deck capable of carrying, arming, deploying and recovering aircraft.
  • They act as command and control of a naval fleet in times of war and peace.
  • A carrier battle group consists of an aircraft carrier and its escorts, together making the group
Source- PIB 

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