The Indian Navy's "Vikrant" is finally about to be launched, and the estimated launch time is estimated to be in August this year, when India will have two aircraft carriers, and the active "Super Sun King" has finally ushered in its own partner.
The aircraft carrier "Super Sun King", also known as "Vikramadiya", its predecessor is the famous "Kiev-class" iv ship, that is, 1143.4 "Baku".
Kiev Class aircraft carrier, known in the Soviet Union as Авианесущие крейсера проекта 1143 (1143 heavy aircraft cruiser), the Soviet Union called itself a "heavy aircraft cruiser" or "heavy anti-submarine cruiser".
Baku was laid with keels at the Nikolaev Shipyard in the Black Sea in December 1978, launched on 17 April 1982 and commissioned into service with the Soviet Navy in June 1988; After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Baku, which was commissioned into service with the Russian Navy, was renamed Admiral Gorshkov.
Baku
Baku
The Gorshkov has many improvements in equipment compared with the first three sister ships of the Kiev class, and the ship's detection and weapon system are comparable to the subsequent "Kuznetsov" aircraft carrier, which should be used as a verification ship for the latter. The island of the "Gorshkov" resembles the "Kuznetsov", which is equipped with four huge antennas of the Sky Sentinel Phased Array Radar (note the two picture radars below), and the standard displacement of the "Gorshkov" is 38,000 tons, with a full load of 45,000 tons. The ship continued to serve until February 1994, when the engine room exploded, then towed back to the Northern Fleet shipyard in Murmansk for renovations, and was relaunched in 1995, but was decommissioned on August 1, 1995 due to Russia's economic scarcity and inability to operate.
Gorshkov
Kuznetsov
On January 20, 2004, India and Russia signed a contract to finalize the aircraft carrier transfer agreement, the Russian side for 1 US dollar to the Indian side to transfer the aircraft carrier, by the Russian Severodvinsk Shipyard responsible for the conversion project, a total amount of 1.5 billion US dollars, of which the hull part of the renovation and reconstruction will cost 970 million US dollars, the remaining 530 million US dollars for the purchase of carrier-based aircraft, and finally the aircraft carrier cost 2.33 billion US dollars, this price is jaw-dropping, the white elephant is a solid knot and cut by maozi.
Next up is the possible Indian service this year, the Vikrant
The aircraft carrier "Vikrant" is India's first domestic aircraft carrier, 260 meters long, 60 meters wide, displacement of 37,500 tons, full load displacement of 40,000 tons, the maximum speed of 28 knots. The appearance of the Vikrat cannot be separated from the framework of 1143.4, which is also another development line of the Soviet aircraft carrier.