Inside India's aircraft carrier: First sea trial done, Vikrant in new avatar ready for fighter jets to take off
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Inside India's aircraft carrier: First sea trial done, Vikrant in new avatar ready for fighter jets to take off

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After a long wait, the Indian Navy's first indigenous aircraft carrier went into the seas for the first time. The mammoth warship, that will be called INS Vikrant, is the Indian Navy's first Made in India aircraft carrier. As per Naval tradition, ships never die, and in keeping with this tradition, the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier will be back in a new avatar with the same name, Vikrant -- India's first Aircraft Carrier acquired from the UK in 1961 that was decommissioned. India currently has INS Vikramaditya as the only operational aircraft carrier while INS Vikrant should be ready for operations within a year. With the first sea trials operating helicopters, the next big step for Vikrant would be to test fighter aircraft operations.

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