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Indian admirals to visit HMS Queen Elizabeth on Friday, as London aims to power IAC-2 with propulsion system

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The Queen Elizabeth’s “integrated all-electric propulsion system” is based on two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine alternators and four diesel engines

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
On Friday, a group of senior Indian Navy admirals will helicopter out from Mumbai and land on Her Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that is moored in the Arabian Sea on her way back to the UK after patro­lling the South China Sea.

HMS Queen Elizabeth is named after the iconic, 16th century British monarch, also called the Virgin Queen, whose legendary admiral, Sir Francis Drake, destroyed an invading Spanish armada (armed fleet) in the summer of 1588, setting England on course to be the world’s predominant naval power for the next 350 years.