According to a media report, the United Kingdom is in talks with the Indian government on building a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier.
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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.
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