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INS Vikrant in the days of the yore!
#Nostalgia
#INSVikrant
Barrier Engagement on INS Vikrant by Cdr PA Debrass, 26 March 1966
#INSVikrant
INS Vikrant with her entire complement of flying machines!
A busy little floating airfield she was!
#INSVikrant
INS Vikrant strutting her stuff in Malta, some time in the 1960s
#INSVikrant
18 May 1961 - First Indian deck landing on INS Vikrant!
#INSVikrant
A deck-full of deadly flying machines!

#INSVikrant
Favourable winds and a reliable catapult were a must!
Of course the Mother Ship too sailed into the wind with all her might in order to give her birds just that much more advantage!!

#INSVikrant
A Sea Hawk ready to be pushed into the blue skies!
Behind the little wall of steam, sails the erstwhile INS Mysore!

Photo: Bharat Rakshak

#INSVikrant
विक्रांत!

#INSVikrant
A Legacy Unmatched!

#INSVikrant
Three fighter types sailing the seas together - Sea Harriers, Sea Hawks and Alizes!

#INSVikrant
04 March 1961 - The Vikrant is Commissioned in the service of Mother India!

#INSVikrant
The beginning of yet another new era for the Grand Old Mothership!

#INSVikrant
The Harrier's first rendezvous with the Mother Ship!

#INSVikrant
10 May 1987 - The last catapult launch from an Indian Aircraft Carrier till date.
Hereafter the Vikrant went on to be retrofitted with a ski jump!

#INSVikrant
The VTOL era was yet another 'interesting' one!

#INSVikrant
The Viraat and Vikrant prowled the seas together for almost six years before the latter was decommissioned!

#INSVikrant
Yet another wonderful image from a glorious past!

#INSVikrant
The Awesome men and machines that together formed a formidable, winning combination!

#INSVikrant
A visit by the Prime Minister!

#INSVikrant
This Chetak would've made even Maharana Pratap proud!!
Sea Hawks lined up onboard the Vikrant!

#INSVikrant
An Alize thrown up into the skies by the faithful catapult of the Mother Ship!

#INSVikrant
A Sea King looks for submerged challengers by the Mother Ship!

#INSVikrant
Harriers and the Vikrant - Made for Each Other!

#INSVikrant
A sad ending indeed ..

#INSVikrant
Yet She lives on!

#INSVikrant
A poignant, yet optimistic parting message from two and a half decades ago

#INSVikrant
.. And a wish fulfilled as the Vikrant commes alive again!
Cheers to the beginning of a new era!

#INSVikrant
BRAVO ZULU!!

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