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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
INS Vikrant, India’s first home-built aircraft carrier, has formally commissioned at which place?
A
Naval Dockyard, Vishakapatnam
B
Goa Shipyard Limited
C
Bombay Dockyard
D
Cochin Shipyard Limited
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an audience before commissioning India’s first home-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at a state-run shipyard in Kochi, India, Sept. 2, 2022. The new aircraft carrier is India’s second – the first one was built in the former Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -The INS Vikrant was launched on September 22, 1945 as Hercules. However, its construction was stalled and was completed when India purchased it from Britain in 1957. On March 04, 1961 it was commissioned as Vikrant in its first avatar.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aim is to make India an indigenous ship building hub: RM. Indian Naval Ship (INS) Mormugao (D67), second warship of the P15B class of stealth guided-missile destroyers, was commissioned in the august presence of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on December 18, 2022.

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