India may turn former British flagship into motorbikes

AHMEDABAD: Scrap metal from what was once the world's oldest-serving aircraft carrier - and Britain's flagship during the 1982 Falklands war ...

AHMEDABAD: Scrap metal from what was once the world's oldest-serving aircraft carrier - and Britain's flagship during the 1982 Falklands war - could be used to make motorbikes, the firm charged with breaking it down said on Tuesday .

Viraat, which means"giant" in Sanskrit, was decommissioned finally in 2017 having sailed more than 1 million km - roughly equivalent to circumnavigating the globe 28 times.

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