Kochi: India will join the select club of 40,000 tonne plus aircraft carrier designers and builders when Defence Minister A K Antony lays the keel of the First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier of the Indian Navy at Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) here on Sunday.
In partnership with the Indian Navy, CSL will be one among the few shipyards of the world to have attempted to construct the Aircraft carrier.
This is the first project in Warship construction for the yard, which has wide experience in commercial building of all varieties of ships, a navy press release said.
The Indigenous aircraft carrier, designed by Navy's Design Organisation, will be capable of operating an aircraft mix of Russian MiG-29K, Ka31 and indigenous LCA.
The ship will have two takeoff runways and a landing strip with three arrester wires.
The ship can carry a maximum of 30 aircraft with adequate hangarage capacity.
Naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta will be among the dignitaries present at the ceremony.
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