INS Vikrant

- India’s first indigenously built Air Craft Carrier (Project -71)

- Build by cochin shipyard

- Designed by Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design (DND).

- Can carry 40000 tonnes

- Length -260 m and breath – 60m

- flight deck area covering the size of two football fields.

-The length of cabling would be 2700 KM which, if laid end to end would stretch from Kochi to Delhi.

-The ship would have a complement of 1600 personnel.

Weapon system :-

The Ship is designed to survive in the event of attack by nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

Vikrant will be capable of operating an aircraft mix of the Russian MiG-29K and LCA (Navy) fighters being developed indigenously by HAL.

Its helicopter component will include the Kamov 31 and the indigenously developed ALH helicopters. The ship’s ability to sense and control a large air space around it will be enabled by modern C/D band Early Air Warning Radar, V/UHF Tactical Air Navigational and Direction Finding systems, jamming capabilities over the expected Electro Magnetic (EM) environment and Carrier Control Approach Radars to aid air operations.

Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR SAM) systems with Multi-Function Radar (MFR) and Close- In Weapon System (CIWS) will form the protective suite of the ship.

Parts production :-

- Combat Management System (CMS), being manufactured by Tata Power systems.

- The steel has come from SAIL’s plants in Rourkela in Orissa, Bokaro in Jharkand and Bhilai in Chattisgarh;

- Main Switch Board, steering gear and water tight hatches have been manufactured by Larsen and Toubro in its plants in Mumbai and Talegaon;

- air conditioning and refrigeration systems have been manufactured in Kirloskar’s plants in Pune

- most pumps have been supplied by Best and Crompton, Chennai;

-Bharat Heavy Engineering Limited (BHEL) is supplying the Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS);

-the massive gear box is supplied by Elecon in Gujarat;

- the tens of thousands of electrical cable is supplied by Nicco industries in Kolkata; Kolkata is also where the ship’s anchor chain cable is manufactured.