Vikrant class aircraft carrier

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Class overview
Name: Project 71
Preceded by: INS VIRAT
Cost: $1 billion(estimate)
Building: 1
Planned: 2
General characteristics
Type: aircraft carrier
Displacement: 37,500 tons
Length: 252 metres
Beam: 58 metres
Draught: 8.4 metres
Propulsion: General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines, driving four shafts.
Speed: 28 knots
Range: 7,500 miles at 18 knots
Complement: approximately 1,400
Aircraft carried: 30 total
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The Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) (formerly known as Air Defense Ship (ADS)) is the first aircraft carrier to be built by India at the Cochin Shipyard. The steel cutting took place at Cochin Shipyard Ltd on 11 April 2005 [1] and the fabrication of the hull has started. This will be the largest and broadest ship ever built by Cochin Shipyard. The Cochin shipyard plans to complete eighty percent of works on the ship before its launch in 2010.[2] The aircraft carrier is expected to enter service by 2012.[3] The early warning sensors and anti-aircraft missile capability of the first aircraft carrier is similar to that of the Kolkata class destroyers. A second ship in the series will be a 64,000 ton aircraft carrier which is expected to enter service by the year 2017.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ India’s Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
  2. ^ First indigenous Air Defence Ship by 2010
  3. ^ Cochin Shipyard to build first indigenous aircraft carrier
  4. ^ Indian Navy eyes three-dimensional force to project power and stability in IOR - February issue, Forceindia.net

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