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India will formally commission its first home-built aircraft carrier on Friday, the culmination of 17 years of construction and tests as the country seeks to catch up with China and its far larger naval fleet.

INS Vikrant will not have its own fleet of fighter jets on deck and instead will rely on few Russian-designed aircraft

With the commissioning of Vikrant on September 2, India will have two operational aircraft carriers.

The PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth around Rs 3,800 crores, a day later in Mangaluru, Karnataka.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will commission India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier as INS Vikrant at the Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi, Kerala on September 2.

For the next 15 or so months, Vikrant will not be a deployable battle-worthy platform, but merely a giant floating air-deck without ‘teeth’.

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The commissioning of the made-in-India aircraft carrier INS Vikrant will contribute in ensuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Vice Chief of Indian Navy Vice Admiral SN Ghormade said today.

The commissioning of INS Vikrant will be a historic occasion, Indian Navy said.

Indian Navy will get INS Vikrant, the country's first indigenously built aircraft carrier, formally on September 2. The timing happens to be crucial, when China is building up its presence in the Indian Ocean region.