VESSEL REVIEW | Vikrant – Indian Navy places locally-built aircraft carrier into service

The Indian Navy recently commissioned the first aircraft carrier to be built in India, INS Vikrant (“Courageous”). The new ship shares its name with an earlier aircra ..

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Indian Navy Expanding to Meet China Threat, Better Team With Allies

The INS ‘Nilgiri’, the first of Indian Navy’s seven new stealth frigates, in Mumbai on September 28, 2019. Indian Navy Photo

For most of its existence, the Indian Navy has been in a state of perpetual modernization. Due to its major shipbuilding programs’ long schedules and the continual need to replace older platforms with new ones – especially submarines – Delhi has been unable to meet its shipbuilding goals.

Since 1948 the Indians have wanted a two-carrier navy with a fleet of 142 ships. While...

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