India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) will be ready for deployment by the country’s navy in the next five years, a senior government official says. The IAC, which is likely to be named INS Vikrant – after India’s first and now decommissioned aircraft carrier – will be put in the water in August and undergo its first sea trials 10 months later, the official says.
NEW DELHI — An Indian air force (IAF) helicopter on a rescue mission in the hilly terrain of the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand state in northern India crashed on June 25, killing at least eight people. The newly acquired Mi-17 V5 helicopter was one of 45 aircraft pressed into service by the IAF to evacuate victims of the flash flood, which has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced more than 50,000.
