𝐼𝒩𝒮 𝒱𝒾𝓀𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝐼𝓃𝒹𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈𝓁𝓎 & 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒷𝓎 𝐼𝓃𝒹𝒾𝒶’𝓈 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎.
Here are 4 things to know about INS Vikrant:
1. Vikrant
is 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
2. This
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
3. Massive
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
4. Larger
Floating city with 18 floors: Termed as a floating city with 18 floors, INS
Vikrant consists of 14 decks with 2,300 compartments which can carry around
1,500 sea warriors and to cater to the food requirements, around 10,000
chapatis or rotis are made in the ship's kitchen, which is called the ship's
galley
INS VIKRANT FUNCTION FOREMOST
NEW WORLD ORDER ,The commissioning of INS Vikrant,
the new avatar of the Indian Navy’s first aircraft carrier and flag carrier for
almost five decades, is a day of celebration for India. And for good reason.
We know about At
about three times the original (42,800 tons versus 16,000 tons), it isn’t just
the biggest warship designed and built in India, it’s also fully a swadeshi
design.
That’s a matter of great pride as it places India among an
elite list of nations with the ability to build such a warship. A list so
elite, you can mostly count it on the fingers of one hand. Of course, we are
excluding Britain for now.
You’d need to be a rare Indian indifferent to such national
achievement, or maybe one from the somewhat less rare community of war-hating,
give-peace-a-chance walas, to not join in the celebration.
nevertheless, so congratulations Indian Navy, its brilliant
and evolving design bureau, engineers, marine warfare visionaries, and of
course, India’s political leaders spanning 25 years and the tenure of three
prime ministers beginning with Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Huge funding around 20kcr .It was under his leadership that
the designing process of this Make-in-India or Atmanirbhar carrier began. The
Cabinet Committee on Security, under him, cleared the project for construction
in 2002.
We can ask why it took India, with its engineering base, 23 years to commission this ship. Especially when the Chinese would build a much bigger one in just three to four years, and in any case, for the new Vikrant,aircraft can INS Vikrant carry the engines are American, GE imports.
India has greter power ,The Chinese already have two fully
operational carriers, one of them fully home-made, almost twice the size of the
new Vikrant, carrying not only many more aircraft, but way more
potent ones like the J-15 or other Chinese copies of Su-30 variants. The third,
which the Chinese with their speed may operationalise as early as next year, is
estimated to be in the one-lakh ton class.
But these are the perennial issues with India’s defence
manufacturing. We’ve been fretting over these and will continue to do so. This
is the time to look at the future with an open mind. Three immediate questions
therefore arise.
The most important of which is to provides advance vergin, does India need aircraft carriers? And if so, what kind and how many? And third,Its a larger previous navel ship what kind of firepower should — and can — India field from these mighty vessels, and where will it come from?
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