Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) ‘Vikrant’, will be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kochi on September 2. And if everything goes according to plan, the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam will be its main base in about a year’s time.
As of now, India has two aircraft carriers—the INS Vikramaditya, which is based at Karwar on the western coast, and the other being the newly-built INS Vikrant, which will be based on the eastern coast, with Visakhapatnam being its home port.
Post launch, INS Vikrant will undergo exercises and trials to hone its capabilities and operational abilities on the western coast close to Kochi, as it was built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
