INS Vikramaditya (R33)
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Vikramaditya at sea in 2014
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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 |
| Launched: | 4 December 2008 |
| Completed: | 19 April 2012 |
| Commissioned: | 16 November 2013 |
| In service: | 14 June 2014 |
| Homeport: | INS Kadamba, Karwar |
| Identification: | Pennant number: R33 |
| Motto: | Strike Far, Strike Sure |
| Status: | in active service |
| History | |
 →  Soviet Union → Russia
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| 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 India on 20 January 2004 |
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| Class and type: | Modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 45,400 tons of loaded displacement |
| Length: | 283.5 metres (930 ft) (overall) |
| Beam: | 59.8 metres (196 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 |
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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 (Sanskrit, Vikramāditya meaning "Brave as the Sun") is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013. She has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary emperor of Ujjain, India.
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. The carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35 billion. The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013 and 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 formally inducted INS Vikramaditya into the Indian Navy and dedicated her to the nation.
Baku entered service in 1987, and was renamed Admiral Gorshkov in 1991, but was deactivated in 1996 because she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget. This attracted the attention of India, which was looking for a way to expand its carrier aviation capabilities. On 20 January 2004, after years of negotiations, Russia and India signed a deal for the sale of the ship. The ship would be free, while India would pay US$800 million for the upgrade and refit of the ship, as well as an additional US$1 billion for the aircraft and weapons systems. The navy looked at equipping the carrier with the E-2C Hawkeye, but decided not to. In 2009, Northrop Grumman offered the advanced E-2D Hawkeye to the Indian Navy.
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