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  Aircraft-carrier: INS Viraat wins its last regatta

  India | December 26, 2015 18:29 IST

  Mumbai: Aircraft-carrier INS Viraat on Saturday won the coveted 'Cock Trophy' during the Western Fleet Whaler Pulling Regatta, making it the last time the warship participated in the event before she is decommissioned.INS Viraat was

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  PM Modi presides over commanders' conference aboard INS Vikramaditya

  Politics | December 15, 2015 20:51 IST

  Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a combined commanders' conference that began on Tuesday morning aboard INS Vikramaditya, stationed about 40 nautical miles on the high seas.Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, apart from the three

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  INS Vikramaditya to finally get air defence system

  India | April 16, 2015 17:46 IST

  New Delhi: India's largest warship INS Vikaramaditya will finally get its own air defence system, courtesy of another ship that may be decommissioned soon.  The Navy plans to transfer an Israeli Barak missile system from

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  At a Glance : INS Vikramaditya, India's new Aircraft Carrier

  India | January 16, 2015 12:06 IST

  New Delhi: India is surrounded by water on  three sides  and so it become utmost important that India should have  a strong naval force  through which it  can protect the country from any act of

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissions INS Kolkata, India's biggest naval destroyer

  India | August 16, 2014 12:05 IST

  Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Mumbai to formally commission country's largest indigeniously-built warship INS Kolkata.Here, we are giving you the live updates of his speech that he is delivering right now.10:17 am: Narendra Modi

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  Indian Navy LCA to soon begin test flights

  India | July 11, 2014 11:32 IST

  New Delhi: The naval variant of India's indegenous light combat aircraft (LCA) is due to soon begin ramp trials.Avinash Chander, scientific adviser to the defence minister and director general Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),

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  Did you know 100,000 eggs are consumed on INS Vikramaditya a month

  India | June 14, 2014 13:27 IST

  Goa: The 20-storey tall INS Vikramaditya, which was visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday, is practically a floating city, with a staggering 100,000 eggs and 20,000 litres of milk being consumed a month.The 44,500-tonne

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicates INS Vikramaditya to the nation

  India | June 14, 2014 14:08 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday dedicated INS Vikramaditya, the largest and most powerful aircraft carrier inducted into the Indian Navy, to the nation, terming it an "important day for our nation".A tweet from

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  Naval chief lauds his personnel

  India | June 12, 2014 17:07 IST

  Kochi: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan today praised his sailors and officers who work in ‘very tough conditions'.“They work under very very tough conditions being in high seas when seas are rough.

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit INS Vikramaditya

  India | June 08, 2014 18:29 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the newly-acquired INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier next week.Sources say the prime minister expressed his desire to visit the ship and the Indian Navy is making

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  PM Modi to sail on board INS Vikramaditya

  India | June 07, 2014 23:30 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sail on INS Vikramaditya, the largest warship of the Indian Navy, off the coast of Goa on June 14.  He will dedicate the warship, India's second aircraft carrier

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  MiG 29K suffers damage on INS Vikramaditya

  India | June 05, 2014 13:57 IST

  New Delhi: A MiG 29K naval combat aircraft has suffered damage while landing on the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya during operations in Arabian Sea off the coast of Goa, a Navy official said today.The Russian-origin

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  INS Vikramaditya is operationally deployed: Navy Chief

  India | May 07, 2014 15:55 IST

  Kochi: India's largest warship—aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, is “operationally deployed” along with its fleet of MiG 29K combat aircraft, Navy chief Admiral Robin Dhowan said here today.“The navy has inducted aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya which

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  Indian Navy's INS Vikramaditya faces embarrassing glitches during voyage

  India | February 10, 2014 12:06 IST

  New Delhi: The Indian Navy has launched preparations to start flying operations from its prestigious aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.  The MiG-29K fighter aircraft have started taking off from the ski-jump and making arrested landings.  But

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  INS Vikramaditya reaches home base in Karwar

  India | January 07, 2014 22:34 IST

  New Delhi: After a delay of almost five years, India's largest warship aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya today reached its home base Karwar in Karnataka.The long-awaited USD 2.3 billion aircraft carrier had started its voyage towards

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  INS Vikramaditya may have been snooped by NATO allies

  India | November 19, 2013 19:53 IST

  New Delhi: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya may have been snooped by a surveillance aircraft belonging to one of the NATO countries when it was undergoing sea trials in Russia.The aircraft carrier may have been snooped

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  Can India afford to run INS Vikramaditya, asks Pakistani daily

  World | November 18, 2013 14:38 IST

  Islamabad: The commissioning of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya into the Indian Navy from Russia shows how addicted the Indian establishment is to outmoded thinking, a Pakistani daily said in an editorial Monday.The Nation's editorial, titled

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  INS Vikramaditya to be inducted into Indian Navy tomorrow

  World | November 15, 2013 17:59 IST

  Severodvinsk (North Russia): The long-delayed and much awaited USD 2.3 billion aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will be inducted into the Indian Navy here tomorrow, enhancing India's maritime capabilities.  Defence Minister A K Antony, who is

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  Know more about the floating airfield of India INS Vikramaditya

  India | November 15, 2013 6:34 IST

  New Delhi: INS Vikramaditya, India's floating airfield, will head home this month completely transformed from the vessel it was at the time of its induction into the Russian fleet in the early 1990s.  The ship

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  Top 10 future weapons of India

  India | June 10, 2015 13:04 IST

  India has two hostile neighbours, Pakistan and China, who are also nuclear powers.  Under these circumstances, India is forced to maintain a strong army and modern weaponry.To keep the armoury synced with the modern times,