Watch: INS Viraat to be beached at Alang shipbreaking yard on Sept 28

INS Viraat, the longest-serving warship of the world, arrived near the Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat, where it will be broken down and sold as scrap. Once capable of cruising at 28 knots with over 2,000 crew and officers onboard, the vessel will be towed and beached during the high tide on September 28. This is the second aircraft carrier to be broken in India in the past six years. In 2014, INS Vikrant, which played a role in the historic 1971 war with Pakistan was broken down in Mumbai. In July 2019, the Modi government announced the decision to scrap INS Viraat in the Parliament.