INS Vikramaditya
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INS Vikramaditya (Sanskrit: Vikramāditya, Brave as the Sun)[note 1] is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy. The carrier entered into service in 2013.[20]
Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya | |
India | |
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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)[1] $10-11 billion (including all aircraft and systems)[2] |
Launched | 4 December 2008 |
Completed | 19 April 2012 |
Commissioned | 16 November 2013[3] |
In service | 14 June 2014 |
Homeport | INS Kadamba, Karwar |
Identification | |
Motto | Strike Far, Strike Sure[5] |
Status | active |
History | |
→ Soviet Union → Russia | |
Name | Admiral Gorshkov |
Namesake | Sergey Gorshkov |
Builder | Chernomorskiy Yard, Nikolayev |
Laid down | 17 February 1978[6] |
Launched | 1 April 1982[6] |
Commissioned | 11 December 1987[6] |
Decommissioned | 1996 |
Fate | Sold to the Indian Navy on 20 January 2004 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier |
Displacement | 45,400 tons of loaded displacement[7][8] |
Length | 284 metres (932 ft) (overall)[9][10] |
Beam | 61 metres (200 ft)[11] |
Draught | 10.2 metres (33 ft) |
Decks | 22[12] |
Installed power | 6 turbo alternators and 6 diesel alternators which generate 18 MWe[12] |
Propulsion | 8 turbo-pressurised boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, generating 180,000 horsepower (134,226 kW)[12][13] |
Speed | +30 knots (56 km/h)[13] |
Range | 13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)[14] |
Endurance | 45 days[12] |
Complement | 110 officers and 1500 sailors[13] |
Sensors and processing systems | Long-range Air Surveillance Radars, LESORUB-E, Resistor-E radar complex, CCS MK II communication complex and Link II tactical data system[12] |
Armament | |
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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.[21][22][23] After years of negotiations, the carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004.[1] The transformed ship completed her sea trials in July 2013[24] and first STOBAR aviation trials in September 2013.[25]
She was commissioned on 16 November 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia.[26] On 14 June 2014, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, formally inducted INS Vikramaditya into the Indian Navy and dedicated her to the nation.[27][28]