{"id":28640,"date":"2013-08-13T01:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28640"},"modified":"2013-08-13T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:30:59","slug":"india-unveils-home-built-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28640","title":{"rendered":"India unveils home-built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ins-vikrant1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28637\" alt=\"ins-vikrant1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ins-vikrant1.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ins-vikrant1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ins-vikrant1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ins-vikrant1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>India launched a 37,500-ton indigenous aircraft carrier Monday in its bid to join a select group of nations capable of building such warships.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier INS Vikrant, meaning courageous, was unveiled at a shipyard in Kochi in southern India, defense ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The warship will undergo extensive tests in the next few years before it is commissioned into the navy, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The INS Vikrant, which is 260 meter (853 feet) long and 60 meter (196 feet) wide, can carry MiG 29K fighters and light combat aircraft, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Only the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and France have the capability to design and build such warships, Kar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India launched a 37,500-ton indigenous aircraft carrier Monday in its bid to join a select&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[2016,2017],"class_list":["post-28640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-india-unveils-home-built-aircraft-carrier","tag-ins-vikrant","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}