Photos: One of the heroes of the 1971 war, INS Vikrant fades away

[caption id=“attachment_1816341” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which played a crucial role in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan and then became a floating museum, is presently being broken down for scrap at the Darukhana ship breaking yard in Mumbai. The process began on Friday with the ship’s curved landing strip for aircraft being separated from the rest of it. PTI[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1816343” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A woman takes a picture of decommissioned warship, INS Vikrant that is being broken at Darukhana ship breaking yard in Mumbai. PTI[/caption]