This Motorcycle Uses Scrap From India's First Aircraft Carrier
- Bajaj introduces 150cc V, built with steel from INS Vikrant
- V offers 12 horsepower, LED lights and design inspired by ship
A model V motorcycle, produced by Bajaj Auto Ltd.
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Bajaj Auto Ltd. on Monday unveiled a model called V that contains metal from India’s first aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant.
The ship, which served the Indian Navy for almost four decades, had taken part in a naval blockade during India’s war with neighbor Pakistan in 1971. India bought the World War II-era aircraft carrier from the U.K. in 1957. It was decommissioned in 1997 and turned into a museum, before it was broken up at a salvage yard in Mumbai in 2014 after petitions to save the vessel failed. The government decided to scrap the ship because it was difficult to maintain.