India unveils home-built aircraft carrier
Country launches first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, which will be tested over next four years.
Published On 12 Aug 2013
India is set to launch its first home-built aircraft carrier at a shipyard in southern Kerala state.
Designed and built entirely at home, India joins only four other nations that have done the same: the US, Britain, Russia and France.
The INS Vikrant took six years to make at a cost of more than $2bn.
On Saturday, India announced its first indigenously-built nuclear submarine was ready for sea trials.
Al Jazeera’s Hyder Abbasi reports.
Source: Al Jazeera