India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier was sold as proof that the country could build the sharpest tools of modern sea power at home. After 13 years of construction and a bill of INR 23,000 crore, ...

After 13 years of delays, India finally commissioned INS Vikrant - its first indigenously built aircraft carrier - and the result is exactly what we’d expect from a nation doing this for the first ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

India’s lone aircraft carrier in 1971 did more than launch air strikes. It sealed off East Pakistan’s coastline, cutting ...