Defence Inshot

  India is the worlds 7th biggest country in the world if we consider the area of the nation . The sea coasts of India is 7500 km  The shape of india in the down south which touches the ocean is a delta or a triangle shaped due to which it requires a larger navy because in any kind of war their should be at least two naval fleets to command and protect the maritime interests and the sovereignty of the nation because unless a country like pakistan which have a linear shaped coast line it would be very easy for the pakistani navy to reach from east to west or vice versa but the indian navy would have to travel a long distance to travel from east to west And that`s why the Indian navy being a potent aircraft carrier force in the region for more than 60 years the Indian navy have expressed a minimum requirement of 3 aircraft carriers to guard both the east and the west coasts of the nation present and reti

  INS   VIKRANT INS V ikrant , also known as  Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1  ( IAC-1 ),  is an AIRCRAFT CARRIER  constructed for the   indian  navy by Cochin  shipyard limited  Recently it has started its maden sea trials and will be commissioned  in the indian navy by August 2022    The carrier has t5he capability to carry around 36 to 40 aircrafts on it out of which 26 will be fixed wing attack aircrafts and 10 will be Ka 31 for AWACS role and  MH 60 R for anti submarine role and  HAL Dhruv for replenishment roles  The carrier is equipped with 64 x Barak 8 missiles and 4 x Otobreda 76 mm cannons and 4 AK630 close in weapon systems And the carrier is equipped with ELTA ELM 2248 AESA  radar which has a radar range of 450 km for a high altitude aircrafts and can guide missiles to their targets .And also the carrier is equipped with a secondary radar selex RAN 40 L which has a range of 400 km Since aircraft carriers are a costly equipments so they never travel alo