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India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier to be commissioned in 2022

Current GK (CPO) Defence

The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has informed that India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-I), is planned to be commissioned by 2022.
Once commissioned, the carrier will be rechristened as INS Vikrant, in memory of India’s first aircraft carrier.
The IAC-1 caarier is being built at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), Kochi, Kerala, under public-private partnership.
It comprise of nearly 75 percent of indigenous content from design, to steel used in construction, to key weapons and sensors.
The IAC-1 will undergo a series of sea trials before it gets inducted in the Navy.
Vikrant is 262 metres (860 ft) long and 62 metres (203 ft) wide, and displaces about 40,000 metric tons (39,000 long tons).