INS VIRAAT Subject : Defence Context : INS Viraat, the Navy’s decommissioned aircraft carrier, has become the “private property” of a ship-breaker who has already torn down 40% of its body, chiefly for scrap, the Supreme Court told a private company, that wants to turn the vessel into a maritime museum-cum-adventure centre. Concept […]

Subject: Defence Context: INS Viraat is the second aircraft carrier to be broken in India in the last six years. In 2014, INS Vikrant, which played a crucial role in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, was dismantled in Mumbai. Concept: Viraat a Centaur class aircraft carrier weighing 27,800 tonnes, served in the British Navy as HMS […]