VISHAL

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• The new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier is proposed to be build along the lines of Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth as part of the ongoing ‘Make in India’ negotations.
  
  
• The talks are under way for the Indian Navy to buy detailed plans for the 65,000-ton British warship to build a so-called “copycat supercarrier” to be named INS Vishal in 2022.
  
  
• If a deal can be agreed, the new warship would be built in India but UK companies could supply many of the parts.
  
  
• Such a new Naval carrier would serve alongside India’s 45,000-ton carrier INS Vikramaditya — bought from Russia in 2004 — and the currently under-construction 40,000-ton INS Vikrant, and could give India a larger carrier fleet than Britain.
  
  
• The reported India-UK Naval deal would follow the sale of Britain’s Falklands War carrier HMS Hermes to India in 1987, which was renamed INS Viraat and decommissioned two years ago.