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Viraat was completed and commissioned in 1959 as the Royal Navy’s HMS Hermes and was transferred to India in 1987. INS Viraat was the flagship of the Indian Navy, the oldest carrier in service and one of two aircraft carriers based in the Indian Ocean Region. It was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier in service with the Indian Navy. The second aircraft carrier was INS Viraat. The crew of INS Vikrant earned two Maha Vir Chakras and twelve Vir Chakra gallantry medals for their part in the war. Simultaneous attacks by Alizés continued on Cox’s Bazar. On December 14, the Sea Hawks attacked the cantonment area in Chittagong, destroying several Pakistani army barracks. Its aircrafts carried out strikes on shipping struck in Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar harbours, Khulna and the Port of Mongla. Vikrant performed admirably by carrying out a blockade of then East Pakistan. This could be called India’s first CBG / CSG.

During 1971 War, Eastern Fleet was formed which consisted of INS Vikrant, the two Leopard-class frigates INS Brahmaputra and INS Beas, the two Petya III-class corvettes INS Kamorta and INS Kavaratti, and one submarine, INS Khanderi.

India purchased the INS Vikrant from the United Kingdom in 1957 and commissioned it in Mar 1961 and decommissioned it in January 1997. Indian Navy’s (IN) first aircraft carrier was INS Vikrant (formerly HMS Hercules) which was a Majestic class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. It is expected to be operational by 2024, with additional carriers to follow. China continues to work on its second domestically built aircraft carrier since 2019, which will be larger and fitted with a catapult launch system. The new carrier is a modified version of the Liaoning (Soviet Kuznetsov) design and also uses a ski jump for takeoff for its aircraft. In December 2019, China commissioned its first domestically built aircraft carrier, Shandong, which was launched in 2017 and completed multiple sea trials during 2018-2019. The HMS Queen Elizabeth leads the Strike Group, which includes nine ships, 15 British and US fighter planes and 11 helicopters. The deployment will include a detachment of US Marine Corps, F-35 Lightning II aircraft and the Navy’s USS Sullivan. The US and Britain jointly declared forming a CSG 2021 deployment to be led by Britain’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth which has a displacement of 60,000 tonnes and can carry up to 60 aircraft. The US Navy maintains nine carrier strike groups. The role being to threaten or strike hostile elements with air power, carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and land marines if required. It implies the same as a carrier battle group (CBG). Concept of Carrier Strike Group (CSG)ĬSG is an operational formation conceived by the US Navy composed of an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates, a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft and about 7,500 personnel. All US aircraft carriers have nuclear propulsion. Ford Class, three are ready and the seven are under construction. The ten-ship Nimitz-class has been built and are on active duty. Currently the US Navy is developing only two classes of super carriers - the Nimitz-class and the modern day post-cold war Gerald R. Since then there was no looking back and US has led the development of supercarriers. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the US Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on March 20, 1922. The term ‘Fleet Air Arm’ came into being in 1924 and HMS Hermes became the first ship to be designed, built and commissioned as an aircraft carrier. HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier and launched in 1914.