INS Vikramaditya
Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya | |
| India | |
|---|---|
| Name | INS Vikramaditya |
| Namesake | Vikramāditya |
| Operator | Indian Navy |
| Ordered | 20 January 2004 |
| Builder | Black Sea Shipyard, USSR, and Sevmash, Russia |
| Cost | $2.35 billion (refurbishment) $10-11 billion (including all aircraft and systems) |
| Launched | 4 December 2008 |
| Completed | 19 April 2012 |
| Commissioned | 16 November 2013 |
| In service | 14 June 2014 |
| Homeport | INS Kadamba, Karwar |
| Identification | |
| Motto | Strike Far, Strike Sure |
| Status | Active |
| History | |
| → Soviet Union → Russia | |
| Name | Admiral Gorshkov |
| Namesake | Sergey Gorshkov |
| Builder | Chernomorskiy Yard, Nikolayev |
| Laid down | 17 February 1978 |
| Launched | 1 April 1982 |
| Commissioned | 11 December 1987 |
| Decommissioned | 1996 |
| Fate | Sold to the Indian Navy on 20 January 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier |
| Type | Aircraft carrier |
| Displacement | 45,000 tons of loaded displacement |
| Length | 284 metres (932 ft) (overall) |
| Beam | 61 metres (200 ft) |
| Height | 60.0 metres (196.9 ft) |
| Draught | 10.2 metres (33 ft) |
| Decks | 22 |
| Installed power | 6 turbo alternators and 6 diesel alternators which generate 18 MWe |
| Propulsion | 8 turbo-pressurised boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, generating 180,000 horsepower (134,226 kW) |
| Speed | +30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range | 13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Endurance | 45 days |
| Complement | 110 officers and 1500 sailors |
| Sensors & processing systems | Long-range Air Surveillance Radars, LESORUB-E, Resistor-E radar complex, CCS MK II communication complex and Link II tactical data system |
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INS Vikramaditya (lit. 'Valour Comparable to the Sun') is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy. The carrier entered into service in 2013.
Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet Navy and later with the Russian Navy (as Admiral Gorshkov) before being decommissioned in 1996. After years of negotiations, the carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004. The transformed ship completed her sea trials in July 2013 and first STOBAR aviation trials in September 2013.
She was commissioned on 16 November 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia. On 14 June 2014, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, formally inducted INS Vikramaditya into the Indian Navy.