{"id":227478,"date":"2023-02-20T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227478"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:04:46","slug":"navy-plans-for-another-vikrant-size-carrier-before-vikramaditya-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/navy-plans-for-another-vikrant-size-carrier-before-vikramaditya-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy plans for another Vikrant-size carrier before Vikramaditya retires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cNavy plans for another Vikrant-size carrier before Vikramaditya retires\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 20th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Navy plans for another INS Vikrant-size Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) with some modifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the Indian Navy\u2019s plans related to Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Navy has planned for another INS Vikrant-size Indigenous Aircraft Carrier(IAC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upcoming IAC-2 would be bigger than the present IAC-1.INS Vikrant\u2019s size is around 44,000 tonnes and the IAC-2 planned was around 65,000 tonnes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) will be given the order for IAC-2 as it has acquired considerable expertise in building an aircraft carrier with INS Vikrant. It has said that it can deliver another vessel in 8 years from date of order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Indian Navy requires three aircraft carriers because when the ship undergoes maintenance, it takes time given its size and the possible delays.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is INS Vikrant?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-complete-story-of-ins-vikrant-and-why-india-already-wants-to-build-another-aircraft-carrier\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INS Vikrant was commissioned in September 2022 and is currently undergoing aviation trials. It is expected to be operationally ready by the end of 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNavy plans for another Vikrant-size carrier before Vikramaditya retires\u201d published in The Hindu on 20th February 2023. What is the News? Indian Navy plans for another INS Vikrant-size Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) with some modifications. What are the Indian Navy\u2019s plans related to Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/navy-plans-for-another-vikrant-size-carrier-before-vikramaditya-retires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy plans for another Vikrant-size carrier before Vikramaditya retires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-227478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915146},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}