The state government in Andhra Pradesh will invest more than $3 million in converting the Centaur-class aircraft carrier. The ship’s main structure will stay in tact during the conversion process.

Summary: The HMS Hermes, a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, served the Royal Navy from its completion in 1959 until it was decommissioned and sold to India, where it served as INS Viraat until 2017.

That barrier to entry means only few countries can field even one carrier. HMS Hermes was a conventionally powered Centaur-class flattop that was laid down in 1944. Construction was paused for ...

Viraat began life as Centaur-class carrier dubbed HMS Hermes, part of the the British Royal Navy’s mid-war building program that also spawned the Colossus-class light carriers and the Audacious ...

Centaur’s first design with its new artificial intelligence (AI) technology combines eight new server-class x86 CPU cores with a 20 tera-operations-per-second (TOPS) coprocessor optimized for ...

HMS Hermes HMS Hermes was a conventionally powered Centaur-class flattop that was laid down in 1944. Construction was paused for several years and the carrier wasn't launched until 1953.