India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier to be commissioned in 2022

India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier to be commissioned in 2022

• The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has informed that India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-I), is planned to be commissioned by 2022.
• Once commissioned, the carrier will be rechristened as INS Vikrant, in memory of India’s first aircraft carrier.
• The IAC-1 caarier is being built at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), Kochi, Kerala, under public-private partnership.
• It comprise of nearly 75 percent of indigenous content from design, to steel used in construction, to key weapons and sensors.
• The IAC-1 will undergo a series of sea trials before it gets inducted in the Navy.
• Vikrant is 262 metres (860 ft) long and 62 metres (203 ft) wide, and displaces about 40,000 metric tons (39,000 long tons).