India joins elite warships club

With the maiden indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) entering the assembly phase, India has announced its plans to build a second aircraft carrier.

The second aircraft carrier’s design and capabilities will be similar to the IAC.
“This is certainly not the last indigenous aircraft carrier to be built. There will be at least another one in the near future,” Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said at the keel-laying function for the IAC at Cochin shipyard here on Saturday.

Way back in 1989, the Navy had conceived plans to build two indigenous aircraft carriers to replace the ageing INS Vikrant and eventually the INS Virat.