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Friday, February 14, 2014

India seeks aircraft carrier joint maintenance with Russia

INS VikramadityaIndia took delivery of its refurbished Soviet-era aircraft carrier in January, but wants help to maintain it.

INS Vikramaditya was originally the Soviet Navy's Admiral Gorshkhov, a modified Kiev class aircraft carrier. The ship was commissioned by the Soviet navy in 1987 but mothballed in 1996 because of budget cutbacks.

In 2004 India and Russia signed a $947 million contract for the purchase and refit of the ship. By completion of the contract in late 2013, cost of the refurbishment had risen to $2.3 billion.

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