The voyage of the Vikrant

For more than a quarter of a century, the INS Vikrant had proudly symbolised the Indian Navy's status as the only regional navy with an aircraft carrier, which could project power in a limited manner into the Indian Ocean. But by the late 1980s the Vikrant was getting long in the tooth and was undergoing a life-extension refit that would keep it in service till 1997. And a more muscular newcomer newcomer was grabbing...

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