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India's first indigenously built Aircraft carrier the lead Vikrant class ship was undocked from the shipyard after successfully completing its second construction phase!! Now it will enter the third and final phase of the construction where all the war fighting weapons,radars and other equipments will be outfitted!! this development marks an new era in Indian ship building. Vikrant is the largest ever Navy ship built in India! Now India is capable of building all kind of boats in its defence shipyards!!
When it comes to Vikrant it includes stae of the art new technologies like a AESA radar, it may equipped with Barak - 8 area defence system and latest version of MiG-29 KUB multirole fighters along with TEJAS Navy!! Also this is the first Indian aircraft carrier which features gas turbine propulsion which requires lot less maintenance compare to stean driven propulsion present in Vikramaditya and Viraat India's other two operational carriers. The gas turbine engines are provided by General Electric of united states and license manufactured by HAL in India.
Vikrant should be ready for sea trials by 2017 and should complete its sea trials and inducted in to Navy by 2018!!
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