{"id":540733,"date":"2022-12-05T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540733"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:14:13","slug":"next-aircraft-carrier-might-also-be-a-small-one-says-admiral-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/next-aircraft-carrier-might-also-be-a-small-one-says-admiral-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Next aircraft carrier might also be a small one, says Admiral Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling the commissioning of India\u2019s first indigenous aircraft carrier, IAC-1, on September 2 \u201ca seminal event in the history of the nation and the navy\u201d, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R Hari Kumar, sprung a bombshell in his customary Navy Day-eve press conference with the observation that the second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2), might be a copy of IAC-1, rather than the expansive aircraft carrier that had so far been expected. <\/p>\n<p>INS Vikrant is a 40,000-tonne carrier that can embark about 35 aircraft, including helicopters. Successive navy chiefs have publicly stated that INS Vishal, the expected name for IAC-2, would be a 65,000-tonne carrier that would embark 55-60 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling the commissioning of India\u2019s first indigenous aircraft carrier, IAC-1, on September 2 \u201ca seminal event in the history of the nation and the navy\u201d, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R Hari Kumar, sprung a bombshell in his customary Navy Day-eve press conference with the observation that the second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2), might be a copy of IAC-1, rather than the expansive aircraft carrier that had so far been expected. INS Vikrant is a 40,000-tonne carrier that can embark about 35 aircraft, including helicopters. Successive navy chiefs have publicly stated that INS Vishal, the expected name for IAC-2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540733","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}