India's First indigenous aircraft carrier to be launched this December.

[Dalai Lama]

Hope it's completed on time.

 

[twocents]

The first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) of the Navy was floated out at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), at a low-key event attended by senior shipping and naval officers on Thursday.

Among those present were Union Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas; Rear Admiral K.N. Vaidyanathan, Director General, Naval Design; and Commodore K. Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of CSL.

The floating ceremony was followed by a meeting to review the progress in the work being done on the aircraft carrier, a 40,000-tonne fleet air defence platform of the Navy, which will be named after the legendary INS Vikrant. The Union Shipping Secretary told The Hindu that the work on the carrier was progressing, albeit not as per schedule, as so many variables were being factored into the extremely complex construction process.

The official added that the commissioning of the carrier, the keel of which was laid in February 2009, was likely to overshoot its original timeline.

According to a senior naval functionary, the carrier was ‘technically floated out' as the shipyard needed the dry-dock for ‘some other commercial work.' “The carrier has taken on about 14,000 tonnes. She would now undergo interior outfitting, including the laying of pipes before being dry-docked again in the latter half of next year for integration of the propulsion gear-box, generators and the like,” he told The Hindu.

As earlier reported by The Hindu, a delay in the delivery of gear boxes and associated systems had considerably slowed down the construction of the prestigious carrier. Naval officers, however, put on a brave face saying that the phase in which teething trouble was encountered was over. “The gear box is ready and undergoing trials, at last. The underwater package is all lined up but the rest of the equipment has to be identified and tested,” said a naval source.

After facing initial hiccups due to paucity of supply of steel, the carrier project got the much-required thrust with the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) and the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) fashioning carrier-grade steel indigenously.

After the steel supply stabilised, problems pertaining to quality gearbox put the brakes on the project. Elecon Engineering Company Limited, a Gujarat-based firm which had earlier manufactured CODOG marine gear boxes for the Navy's Shivalik-class stealth frigates, found itself in the red attempting to make the carrier's huge main gearboxes. “They have been able to overcome the difficulties with support from a German firm,” said a Navy officer.

The Hindu : News / National : Navy floats out first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

 

[twocents]

I haven't been able to find any videos or pictures. Can anybody help on that?

 

[Archie]

I dont think any pics would be released before it is commisioned in 2015

As was the case with Arihant class Sub , where we only have 1 grainy Pic of the sub even though it is just a few months away from Commissioning

I think we will get to see its pic when it is undegoing sea trials in Indian Ocean ie around 2013-14

 

[nomi007]

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[Black Widow]

IAC, Akash, Brahmos, Arihant, missile shield, Dhruva , Arjuna, Shivalik class are some thing which are making us proud...

 

[AMRITSAR]

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badi khoj khabar rakhte ho guru.

 

[AMRITSAR]

Rest assured..Pakistan isnt sleeping..specially the people responsible for defending the country..
They must by already at work to find a much cheaper and practical counter measure...

make a enthrax bomb cheaper practical counter measure against India .one more cheaper thing is issue a fatwa against aircraft carrier.

 

[AMRITSAR]

BEST OF LUCK, AND HOPE IT WORKS......

IT IS INDIAN AND IT ALWAYS WORKS .

 

[Jason bourne]

....sorry.....my mistek

 

[Major.]

Do any one know what is the armament on this ship.
I could find 4 guns on port side and 2 guns on aft. Dont know which are ciws and OTO merla 76 mm any. Any one has any idea.

 

[tvsram1992]

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great one .

 

[tvsram1992]

Didnt soviet union fell and collapsed?? shame you did not come to help your friends either!

oh man soviet is not a piece of paper for us to stick using glue when it is getting torn.
btw what China did when east pakistan collapsed?

 

[tvsram1992]

If we plan properly we can ensure that we have greater no of ACC's than China .

 

[Jason bourne]

GOOD PIC ....