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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.