{"id":14238,"date":"2023-02-07T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:58:53","slug":"ins-vikrant","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/ins-vikrant","title":{"rendered":"INS Vikrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The naval variant of the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA) landed on the first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, marking a milestone towards the Navy\u2019s self-reliance plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14245 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-feb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-feb.png 490w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-feb-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-feb-360x336.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Image Source: India Today<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About INS Vikrant<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The carrier has a top speed of around 28 knots and a cruising speed of 18 knots with an endurance of about 7,500 nautical miles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is 262 metres long, 62 metres wide and has a height of 59 metres.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship is powered by <\/span><b>four gas turbines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> totalling 88 MW power and has a maximum speed of 28 Knots.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vikrant uses the <\/span><b>Short Take Off but Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) model<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a ski-jump for launching aircraft.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>History of INS Vikrant:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first-ever aircraft carrier that was operated by the Indian Navy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship was <\/span><b>officially laid down in 1943<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and was being built for the Royal Navy as HMS (Her Majesty\u2019s Ship) Hercules when the construction was put on hold after World War II ended.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The construction work was completed and the ship was commissioned in the Indian Navy as INS <\/span><b>Vikrant in 1961.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship was <\/span><b>decommissioned in 1997 after 36 years of service<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plan for building an indigenous aircraft carrier started taking shape as the old INS Vikrant neared its decommissioning in the late 1990s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After it was retired, India relied on INS Viraat, which had then been serving the Indian Navy for over 10 years, after its earlier 25 year stint with the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the design and construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-I (IAC-I) was sanctioned in January 2003.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), a public sector shipbuilding entity under the Ministry of Shipping, was tasked to build the ship.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>News Source: The Hindu<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The naval variant of the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA) landed on the first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, marking a milestone towards the Navy\u2019s self-reliance plans.\u00a0 Image Source: India Today About INS Vikrant The carrier has a top speed of around 28 knots and a cruising speed of 18 knots with an endurance&hellip; 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