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On Board Vikrant (Kochi): She is a majestic tiger, albeit without teeth at the moment. She will turn menacing as she steadily grows fangs over the next one year, getting ready to prowl and snarl on the high seas.
The 45,000-tonne indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), the largest-ever warship to be built in India for about Rs 20,000 crore at the Cochin Shipyard, is fully sea-worthy to be commissioned as INS Vikrant by PM Narendra Modi on September 2.
But the IAC will become fully combat-ready after the MiG-29K supersonic fighter jets complete crucial flight trials from her sprawling deck, and she is equipped with all her high-tech weapons like the Israeli-origin 80-km range Barak-8 surface-to-air missile systems, by around mid-2023.
With trials of the Dhruv, Sea King and Chetak helicopters already over, the IAC is now gearing up for the MiG-29K trials to begin in October-November.
Trials of the new submarine-hunting MH-60“Romeo” helicopters acquired from the US as well as the Russian-origin early-warning Kamov-31 choppers are also in the works.
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