Hangar the size of ‘2 Olympic pools’: The hangar that will house the aircraft is big enough to accommodate two Olympic pools, the Navy said.Ĥ. Size of ‘2 football fields’: Vikrant is the largest ship ever built in India's maritime history – as big as the size of two football fields, the Indian Navy said in a video.ģ. 262-meter-long: According to the Indian Navy, the 262-meter-long carrier INS Vikrant has a full displacement of close to 45,000 tonnes which is much larger and more advanced than its predecessor.Ģ. Here are 10 things to know about INS Vikrant:ġ. It is designed by the Indian Navy's in-house Warship Design Bureau (WDB) and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, a Public Sector Shipyard under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. ‘Vikrant’ got its name from the illustrious predecessor, India's first aircraft carrier, which had played a vital role in the 1971 war. The carrier displaces about 45,000 tonnes, making it the largest warship in the Indian naval inventory. It has a large amount of indigenous equipment and machinery, involving major industrial houses in the country as well as over 100 MSMEs. INS Vikrant has been built with state-of-the-art automation features and is the largest ship ever built in the maritime history of India. INS Vikrant, India's first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, to be commissioned on September 2. Built at a cost of ₹20,000 crore, the Prime Minister commissioned the carrier at a function organised at the Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the first made-in-India aircraft carrier – INS Vikrant – calling it a “historic occassion” and an “exceptional symbol of self-reliant India”.
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