What is the name of India's first indigenous aircraft carrier?

Correct option is C

·        Vikrant is a Sanskrit word that means stepping beyond or courageous.

·        INS Vikrant is thefirst indigenously built-in aircraft carrier under Project 71. (The country’s most prestigious and largest warship project).

·        It is built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.

·        Indian Navy Directorate of Naval design was responsible for its design.

·        It works on short takeoff but arrested recovery (STOBAR) mechanism within angular ski-jump.

·        It is powered by 4 General Electric gas turbines.

·        It has a gas turbine propulsion.

·        It will operate Russian origin MIG 29k fighters.

·        It is designed to survive nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons attack.

Other options explanation:

•  INS Viraat was originally commissioned by the British Royal Navy as HMS Hermes on 18 November 1959, 15 years after she was laid down in June 1944. She served as the flagship of the Royal Navy's task force during the Falklands War in 1982 and was decommissioned from active duty in 1985.
•      INS Visakhapatnam is the lead ship and the first of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. The ship, commissioned on 21 November 2021, is one of the largest destroyers in service with the Indian Navy.