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BAE Systems has made an offer of a customised Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy during Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition, LIMA-2019.

BAE Systems is offering the Queen Elizabeth design for the Navy’s second Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-2) project. IAC-1 is a 44,000 tonne carrier expected to be named the INS Vikrant. It is slated to begin sea trials by early 2020.

India had been planning to build a new 65,000 tonne carrier, INS Vishal, a conventionally-powered carrier that is currently in the design phase. It will be built at the Cochin shipyard.

India currently has one 45,000 tonne former Soviet Kiev-class Admiral Gorshkov in service, now known as the INS Vikramaditya, which accommodates embarked MiG-29K fighters and helicopters.