The aircraft carrier completed its fina pre
The Type 45 destroyer performed a multitude of missions in the last seven months.
A steel-cutting ceremony for the first MILGEM ship for the Pakistan Navy was held on the same day.
A new aircraft carrier dry dock at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, was also inaugurated.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and HMS Queen Elizabeth met up for a photo exercise.
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