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Chindits: Exclusive: After Sukhoi, Prez to do a Viraat...Supreme Commander to Inspect Ops Demo at Anchorage During Carrier's Golden Jubilee on Dec 23 !
President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, after seeing the prowess of the Indian Air Force (IAF)'s frontline fighter Sukhoi-30MKI, is all set to get the feel of the Indian Navy and its assets on December 23 at the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command, onboard the country's only aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, in its Golden Jubilee year.
Originally the HMS Hermes in the UK Royal Navy, Viraat turned 50 on November 18 this year, for which the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Nirmal Verma attended a quiet function in the Goa-based naval base INS Hansa.
The President, also the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, will get a first hand capability demo and ops-demo (Operations Demonstration) of the aircraft carrier and also its complement of the Sea Harrier fighter jets, which will fly down for a fly-past demonstration to the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, from Goa. Right now out of the eight Harriers left in service in the Navy, only five fighters and one trainer are operational.
Preparations are on in full swing on the carrier to receive the First citizen of the country. People's Post, which was invited to the Western Naval Command for the Navy Week and for a walk-through on Viraat on its Golden Jubilee celebration year, was told by senior officers that since the President is the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, she has full right to and also should inspect the military capability of the country and its armed forces and and get a hands-on of it. She will be witness to the ops-demo by the fixed wing aircraft and chopper elements of the 50 year old carrier, at the anchorage, as there would be no sailing, and she would leave after four to five hours at the Dockyard.
President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, after seeing the prowess of the Indian Air Force (IAF)'s frontline fighter Sukhoi-30MKI, is all set to get the feel of the Indian Navy and its assets on December 23 at the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command, onboard the country's only aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, in its Golden Jubilee year.
Originally the HMS Hermes in the UK Royal Navy, Viraat turned 50 on November 18 this year, for which the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Nirmal Verma attended a quiet function in the Goa-based naval base INS Hansa.
The President, also the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, will get a first hand capability demo and ops-demo (Operations Demonstration) of the aircraft carrier and also its complement of the Sea Harrier fighter jets, which will fly down for a fly-past demonstration to the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, from Goa. Right now out of the eight Harriers left in service in the Navy, only five fighters and one trainer are operational.
Preparations are on in full swing on the carrier to receive the First citizen of the country. People's Post, which was invited to the Western Naval Command for the Navy Week and for a walk-through on Viraat on its Golden Jubilee celebration year, was told by senior officers that since the President is the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, she has full right to and also should inspect the military capability of the country and its armed forces and and get a hands-on of it. She will be witness to the ops-demo by the fixed wing aircraft and chopper elements of the 50 year old carrier, at the anchorage, as there would be no sailing, and she would leave after four to five hours at the Dockyard.
