India's First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

摘要

India is inching ever closer to being a three carrier, blue water navy, with its first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), which is also its biggest warship to date. Commissioned into the Indian Navy as Indian Naval Ship - INS VIKRANT ("Courageous" in Sanskrit), India, in its 75th year of independence, has been catapulted into the elite club of nations possessing the niche capability to indigenously design and construct an aircraft carrier. This is the Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier, after VIKRAMADITYA, purchased from Russia, was commissioned in 2013.