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    The Vikrant class (lit. 'Courageous') (formerly Project 71 Air Defence Ship (ADS) or Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)) is a class of aircraft carrier being...
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    INS Vikrant is an aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy. The carrier is India's fourth carrier and the first to be built domestically. It was...
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  • intended to be the third aircraft carrier to be built in India after INS Vikrant (IAC-1) and another Vikrant-class aircraft carrier, provisionally called...
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    This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck...
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    INS Vikrant (from Sanskrit vikrānta, "courageous") was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS Hercules for...
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    CATOBAR (category Aircraft carriers)
    Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) used by the United States Navy. INS Vishal, India's second indigenous aircraft carrier of the Vikrant-class, is planned...
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    Comparable to the Sun') is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy. The carrier entered into service in 2013. Originally...
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    Vikrant (2013) in 2022. Vikramaditya is the modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, Vikrant is the first indigenous aircraft carrier built...
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    The Kiev class, Soviet designation Project 1143 Krechyet (gyrfalcon), was the first class of fixed-wing aircraft carriers (heavy aviation cruiser in Soviet...
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    active aircraft carrier in the world. Despite attempts to preserve several of these carriers as museum ships, the last surviving example, Vikrant, was sold...
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    A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type...
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    aircraft carrier classes in service List of sunken aircraft carriers Timeline for aircraft carrier service "Aircraft carrier | Define Aircraft carrier at Dictionary...
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  • The list of aircraft carrier classes in service includes all those currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped...
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  • operated by the Indian Navy have had the name INS Vikrant. INS Vikrant (1961), a British-built aircraft carrier which was in service from 1961 to 1997, operated...
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    carrier-based aircraft (also known as carrier-capable aircraft, carrier-borne aircraft, carrier aircraft or aeronaval aircraft) is a naval aircraft designed...
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    Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and light aircraft carrier; an "aircraft maintenance carrier". The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carriers were designed and...
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  • expected to be capable of harbouring two aircraft carriers, including the planned new Vikrant-class aircraft carrier. There are two more naval air stations...
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    nuclear-powered aircraft carrier". Defense News. Retrieved 22 December 2020. "Indian Navy seeks EMALS system for second vikrant class aircraft carrier". Naval...
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    STOBAR (category Aircraft carriers)
    on Aircraft Carriers: A Good Idea?". The Diplomat. Retrieved 26 July 2019. "Indian Navy seeks EMALS system for second Vikrant-class aircraft carrier"....
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    numerous Indian warships, including INS Vikrant – India's first indigenously-designed aircraft carrier, the Arihant-class submarines – India's first indigenously-designed...
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    HMS Hermes (1924), Béarn (1927), and the Lexington-class aircraft carriers (1927). Most early aircraft carriers were conversions of ships that were laid down...
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    built India's first indigenous aircraft carrier. INS Vikrant (formerly, the Project 71 "Air Defence Ship"). The carrier is the largest warship built by...
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    India, is the country's largest shipyard. It is building the Vikrant-class aircraft carrier. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers is located in India...
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    The tender winner would form the Carrier Air Group of INS Vikrant. Further, MRCBF orders were reduced from 57 aircraft to 26, including trainer variants...
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    decommissioned United States Navy aircraft carrier. In 1958, she became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, and the...
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  • The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This...
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    Electromagnetic catapult (category Aircraft carriers)
    on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and the Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian. The system launches carrier-based aircraft by means of a catapult...
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    original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009. "INS Vikrant, 1st India-Made Aircraft Carrier, Commissioned By PM". NDTV.com. Archived from the original...
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    completed its maiden landing and take-off from the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. The Tejas Mark 1A variant has more than 40 improvements over...
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    Aircraft carriers have their origins during the days of World War I. The earliest experiments consisted of fitting temporary "flying off" platforms to...
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