Login

 

Forgot password?
submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards Gulf of Aden frigate training Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei procurements policy Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg France tests financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky US Navy Serdiukov cruise Mediterranean Zvezdochka NATO innovations United Shipbuilding Corporation Indian Navy Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Vladivostok Mistral accident hijacking corvettes overhaul Admiral Kuznetsov anniversary Russia - France Vysotsky Rosoboronexport ceremony event Yantar Severomorsk negotiations defense order conflict aircraft China deployment naval aviation investigations Black Sea Putin Varyag coast guard Novorossiysk Vikramaditya landing craft crime Far East marines Severnaya Verf meeting scandals memorials traditions Syria statistics Japan escort South Korea Yasen Neustrashimy tenders Marshal Shaposhnikov Admiral Chabanenko convoys Ukrainian Navy problems Severodvinsk Chirkov reinforcement tension firings tragedy technology Baltic Sea search and rescue Almaz Moskva frontier service Caspian Flotilla provocation hostages upgrade court Dmitry Donskoy keel laying rumors Turkey World War II death shipwreck Admiral Panteleyev Atalanta Petr Veliky helicopters Kilo class Kaliningrad Admiral Vinogradov Norway Rubin delivery launching patrols
Search
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Indian Navy Plans to Receive INS Vikramaditya by April 2013

Indian Navy Plans to Receive INS Vikramaditya by April 2013 18.09.2012
Text: ARMS-TASS
Photo: indiannavy.nic.in
Indian Navy plans to receive aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (former Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Gorshkov) by Apr 2013, said Indian Navy's official representative P.V.S. Satish.

"We hope to receive the aircraft carrier in April", cites him information agency IANS.

Sea trials of INS Vikramaditya were discontinued due to problems of powerplant, and now the ship is heading back to Sevmash shipyard to examine and repair several broken-down steam boilers.

According to package intergovernmental agreement signed in Jan 2004 in New Delhi, the hull of Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Gorshkov was handed over to India under condition that the ship would be modernized at Sevmash shipyard and equipped with Russian aircraft. Russia will also train about 1,500 Indian crewmembers and construct the ship-basing infrastructure in the Indian Ocean. According to Indian sources, the contract will cost $2.33 bln.

Formerly named Baku, aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov was commissioned into Northern Fleet in 1987. After repair and retrofitting, full displacement of the carrier is 45,000 tons; length overall is 283.5 meters, beam overall is 59.8 meters. The ship is capable to accommodate 30 aircraft including deck-based fighters MiG-29K and helicopters. Crew strength of the ship is 1,924 men.

Back to the list





Back to news list