INS Viraat decommissioning/ India Navy/ INS Viraat ko akhiri salam/ World's oldest Aircraft Career.
Channel: Defence Nd Politics
Date: 2020-09-21

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INS Viraat, the Aircraft Carrier with the longest service in the world, commenced its towed final journey on Saturday from Mumbai, to be broken at Alang in Gujarat and sold as scrap. A look at the Grand Old Lady of Indian Navy, which was decommissioned in 2017 after 30 years of service with Indian Navy and around 27 years prior to that in British Royal Navy.
The ship was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS (Her Majesty’s Ship) Hermes in November 1959, close to one and half decades after its keel was laid. During her service with the Royal Navy, the ship operated three fixed-wing planes and a chopper. The ship belonged to the Centaur class of light fleet carriers from the Royal Navy which were in use since World War II.
INS Viraat, the Guinness record holder for being the longest-serving warship of the world, will arrive at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat in September, where it will be broken and sold as scrap.
One of the biggest ship recyclers at Alang — Shree Ram Group — has purchased the aircraft carrier, which served in the Indian Navy for 30 years.
The ship, during its service, operated one fixed wing aircraft British made Sea Harriers and three helicopters — Anti Submarine aircraft Sea King Mk 42B, Sea King Mk 42 C, Chetak on board. Some other helicopters including Indian made ALH Dhruv have also been operated from it during its service.
Originally commissioned by the British Navy as HMS Hermes on November 18, 1959, the aircraft carrier had taken part in the Falkland Islands war in 1982. India bought the British carrier in 1986 and rechristened it as INS Viraat. Under the Indian flag, the ship that could carry 24 aircraft, including fighter jets and helicopters, clocked more than 22,622 flying hours and spent 2,252 days at sea sailing 5.88 lakh nautical miles, which is almost equivalent to covering the globe 27 times. It was decommissioned on March 2017.

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