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INS Viraat: Key Facts
INS Viraat is an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy that is currently being broken apart at Alang ship-breaking yard, Gujarat. It is noted for its participation in Operation Jupiter and Operation Parakram. It was decommissioned in 2017. There have been offers to convert it into a maritime museum. But the warship has been sold ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Topics: Aircraft carriers • HMS Hermes • India-Pakistan war • Indian Navy Warships • INS Viraat • malabar exercise • Naseem-Al-Bahr • Royal Navy • varuna exercise
Indian Air Force to formally induct Rafale Fighter Jets in Ambala
The Indian Air Force is going to formally induct the Rafale aircraft on September 10, 2010 at Air Force Station, Ambala. The aircraft will be a part of 17 Squadron called as the Golden Arrows. The first five Indian Air Force Rafale aircraft have arrived to the Air Force Station, Ambala from France on July ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Topics: Aircraft • Aircraft carriers • Dassault Rafale • Indian Air Force
US approves sale of 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India
The United States Department of State on Tuesday approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India at a price of $2.4 billion (Rs 16,516 crore). Sale of MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters The Lockheed Martin-built helicopters will replace India’s ageing fleet of British-made Sea King helicopters. MH-60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters will ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Category: Defence Current Affairs
Topics: Aircraft carriers • Anti-submarine warfare • British • China • cruisers • Destroyers • Frigates • Indian Navy • Indian Ocean • MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters • Sea King helicopters • USA
INS Viraat to be converted into India’s first-ever moored maritime museum-cum-marine adventure centre
The Maharashtra Cabinet has recently approved the conversion of decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Viraat into a floating museum. It will be India’s first-ever moored maritime museum-cum-marine adventure centre. As per primary estimates, the project worth Rs 852 crore will be implemented through Public-Private-Partnership (PPP). It will be grouted (grounded, sealed to the seabed with concrete ..
Topics: Aircraft carriers • HMS Hermes • INS Viraat • Ships • Warships
Type 001A China’s first home-built aircraft carrier that recently started sea trials
China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier “Type-001A” has recently started sea trials. The aim of trials is to demonstrate the reliability and capability of the ship’s propulsion systems. The 50,000-metric tonne vessel will become the country’s second aircraft carrier, and the first to be entirely built and designed inside of China, when it joins the ..
Topics: Aircraft carriers • Chinese aircraft carrier programme • Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier • Ships • Type 001A aircraft carrier