First image of INS Vikrant undocking at Cochin Shipyard

[migflug]

Its island is unusally large for the carrier of its size but its beautiful.
Hope navy order follow on ship of this class

 

[SR-91]

who is the lady in your avatar?

U beat me by few minutes.

She is beautiful.

 

[Burninspice]

The whole place looks dirty just like India!

It's is Water Hyacinth, and it's common in this part of the world before Mansoon season as it washes down the various rivers that feed into Cochin and parks up in the harbour when it meets the flood tide.

 

[Killswitch]

Good to see progress. The IN is way ahead of the other services in making their own platforms.

 

[MilSpec]

Nope,

Interior works, like piping, electrical etc still need to be done.

Moreover, MF-STAR is still not attached.

Propulsion?

 

[HariPrasad]

 

[IND151]

@cirr

Take a look, you were eagerly awaiting it.

The island is set.

The photos look nice!

 

[Echo_419]

Even bigger...74000 tonne class Panamax vessels. Pipavav has orders to build 26 of them

Pipapav Shipyard bags Rs 2050-cr order for 26 panamax carriers - timesofindia-economictimes



We're talking about ships in 45K T, 60K T, 75K T and 100K T class. And no, you can't build an AC.

Didn't knew that had such a large order

 

[IND151]

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Awesome!!!!!

 

[IND151]

Even bigger...74000 tonne class Panamax vessels. Pipavav has orders to build 26 of them

Pipapav Shipyard bags Rs 2050-cr order for 26 panamax carriers - timesofindia-economictimes



We're talking about ships in 45K T, 60K T, 75K T and 100K T class. And no, you can't build an AC.

Thanks for Info.

For those who dont know what is Panamax-

"Panamax and New Panamax are terms for the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal. Formally, these limits and requirements are published by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), titled "Vessel Requirements".[1] These requirements also describe topics like exceptional dry seasonal limits, propulsion, communications, and detailed ship design."

 

[Hindustani78]

The first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which was undocked at Cochin Shipyard on Wednesday.–Photos: H. Vibhu, By Special Arrangement

A breathtaking moment for Cochin shipyard - The Hindu
Cochin Shipyard clinched a record of sorts on Wednesday when it undocked the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant after completing structural work; launched fast patrol vessel Arnvesh for the Coast Guard; and laid the keel for yet another FPV.
“It has become a matter of routine for the yard to do these things. The FPVs are delivered well ahead of schedule,” said Commodore (retd) K. Subramaniam, chairman and managing director of the yard. Arnvesh is the 16{+t}{+h}of the 20 FPVs the yard is building for the Coast Guard

The undocking of Vikrant was the most eagerly awaited occurrence.

“It went off successfully, without any glitch,” he added.

Traffic on the Vikrant-Venduruthy Bridge across the Kochi channel came to a halt as motorists pulled up to catch a glimpse of the behemoth as it was pulled out of the drydock by tugs by 2 pm.

The dock had already been flooded to the desired level and after the dock gate was opened, the tugs began to gently pull the massive vessel, weighing over 26,000 tonnes now minus the ballast.

The stern of the ship, dotted with flags around the flight deck, came into view first, as a naval Chetak helicopter hovered closely over clicking images of the most prestigious vessel under construction for the Navy which will bear the pennant no. R 44 when it finally gets inducted a few years from now.

Once out of the dock, the 262-metre long vessel dwarfed all the ships around it — the ones at the naval quay across the channel and those undergoing repair at the shipyard. Eventually, the carrier was docked along the yard for remaining outfitting work, with the ski jump facing the sea.

Now that the vessel is afloat, alignment of underwater equipment fitted on it will be done.

 

[#hydra#]

Look at the fookin' dirt in the harbor! No wonder our ships keep getting grounded! It's high time they concentrate on dredging ops in all harbors.

Man its an estuary(name vembanat estuary) filled with water whose have slightly higher salinity than normal rivers(because its opened to arabian sea), Also now its a monsoon season there. Due to the heavy rain water flow from river to arabian ocean via vembanat estary is so strong and many of fresh water floating(mainly water hyacinth ) plants will reach there in this estuary. But due to higher salinity all these plants will die and produce some foul smell and an ugly look to the water.

 

[migflug]

One of the best thing about vikrant is it has huge (wide) deck size . While vikramaditya has aviation facility of 8000m2 ,vikrant has of 10000m2 abt 25% increase from vikky. So it means it could carry more migs and heloes than vikky. Vikky while was crrier cruiser , vikrant is true carrier much like elizabeth.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Keep this discussion clean and on topic, no more trolling and measuring contests.

 

[migflug]

few more pics