{"id":519147,"date":"2022-09-03T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=519147"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:01:01","slug":"ins-vikrant-to-elevate-indias-status-as-maritime-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ins-vikrant-to-elevate-indias-status-as-maritime-power\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Vikrant to elevate India\u2019s status as maritime power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: India\u2019s new aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, will elevate the country\u2019s status as a maritime power, boost the navy\u2019s sea control and power projection capabilities, and help the navy fulfil its growing responsibilities in the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific regions, officials tracking the navy\u2019s moderisation said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The warship, India\u2019s first indigenous aircraft carrier, will also allow the navy to counter China\u2019s steadily increasing naval capabilities and check People\u2019s Liberation Army-Navy\u2019s (PLAN) ambitions in the Indian Ocean region, said one of the officials cited above, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>INS Vikrant\u2019s integral air power is formidable and the aircraft carrier significantly enhances the navy\u2019s capability to conduct missions in the far seas, said a second official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: India\u2019s new aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, will elevate the country\u2019s status as a maritime power, boost the navy\u2019s sea control and power projection capabilities, and help the navy fulfil its growing responsibilities in the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific regions, officials tracking the navy\u2019s moderisation said on Friday. The warship, India\u2019s first indigenous aircraft carrier, will also allow the navy to counter China\u2019s steadily increasing naval capabilities and check People\u2019s Liberation Army-Navy\u2019s (PLAN) ambitions in the Indian Ocean region, said one of the officials cited above, asking not to be named. INS Vikrant\u2019s integral air power is formidable and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}