Tensions are running high between India and Pakistan, but India has some firepower: the INS Vikrant. Here's everything you need to know about the vessel.

STOBAR is simpler, and cheaper, to build and maintain than earlier catapult launch systems, which used a more robust assisted (with stronger arrestor wires) landing systems. The Vikramaditya will ...

The Indian navy showcased its two aircraft carriers, the Russian-origin INS Vikramaditya and the locally built INS Vikrant, during the end of February and into March.

Like INS Vikramaditya, Vikrant too would employ the STOBAR (Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery) mechanism with a ski-jump and arrestor cables to launch and recover aircraft.

Sea trials of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya have commenced after it underwent major refits and maintenance for nearly 15 months at Karwar naval base in Karnataka.  The Russian- made ...

INS Viraat will supplement INS Vikramaditya, the 45,000-tonne carrier bought from Russia, which was formerly named the Gorshkov. Another, older carrier, INS Viraat, is expected to be retired by the ...

India operates the INS Vikramaditya, which lacks catapult systems for assisted aircraft take off. Its successor, the INS Vikrant -- the country's first locally built carrier -- will also use a ski ...

The jet has served on INS Vikramaditya but its poor track record has led India to seek 26 new carrier-based fighters — the finalists are Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet and Dassault Aviation's ...

Sea trials of India's latest aircraft carrier will start "this summer", with the work to involve the launch and recovery of fixed-wing aircraft from INS Vikramaditya.

Tensions are running high between India and Pakistan, but India has some firepower: the INS Vikrant. Here's everything you need to know about the vessel.