Number of Aircraft Carriers In Indian Navy

Hi buddy would you plz tell me Number of Aircraft Carriers In Indian Navy, as my cousin asking me about it for his GK related to Indian navy??

Indian Navy is the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces.

As you asking here I am telling about Aircraft Carriers In Indian Navy

Aircraft carriers
Class Type Ships Origin Displacement Note
Aircraft carriers (2 in service)
Kiev class (Modified) INS Vikramaditya (R33) close shot. Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (R33) Russia 45,400 tonnes STOBAR carrier.
Centaur class INS Viraat front Aircraft carrier INS Viraat (R22) United Kingdom 28,700 tonnes STOVL carrier.
Readied for decommissioning and laid up in Mumbai. To be decommissioned in January 2017; scheduled to be replaced by INS Vikrant in 2018-19.

Indian Navy profile :
Type Navy
Size 79,023 active personnel
295 ships & 251 aircraft
Part of Indian Armed Forces,(Ministry of Defence, Government of India)
Headquarters New Delhi
Colours Navy Blue, White
March Jai Bharati
Fleet 2 aircraft carriers
1 amphibious transport dock
8 landing ship tanks
11 destroyers
14 frigates
24 corvettes
6 mine countermeasure vessels
15 submarines
28 patrol vessels
4 replenishment oilers
Engagements List
First Opium War
Second Opium War
World War I
World War II
Portuguese-Indian War
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Bangladesh Liberation War
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Anti-piracy operations in Somalia
Commanders
Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Sunil Lanba, AVSM, SM, ADC
Vice Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, AVSM
Notable
commanders Admiral S. M. Nanda

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