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The announced delivery date for INS Vikramaditya was August 2008, allowing the carrier to enter service just as the Indian Navy's only light carrier INS Viraat retired. While Viraat' s retirement had been pushed out to 2010–2012, [ 32 ] she underwent a final refit, enabling her to serve through 2016.
The Indian Navy (IN), which is the naval warfare branch of the Indian Armed Forces, has approximately 135+ warships on active commission. [1]By forethought, the IN's Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) for the period 2012-2027 had set the objective of the service becoming a 200-ship fleet by 2035; however, that number has since been reduced to 175 in December 2019 - principally owing ...
In late February and early March 2024, INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya were deployed for conducting joint operations on various locations along the Indian coastline with escorts. In the first week of March, while INS Vikramaditya was hosting the first half of the Indian Navy's Biannual Naval Commanders' Conference 2024, both carriers launched ...
The Navy has two aircraft carriers in active service, one of which is the INS Vikramaditya, which serves as the flagship of the fleet. [173] Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov) is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier procured at a total cost $2.3 billion from Russia in December
The Western Naval Command is one of the three command–level formations of the Indian Navy. [1] It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.As the senior–most of the three formations, [2] the command is responsible for the all naval forces in the Arabian Sea and western parts of the Indian Ocean and the naval establishments on the west coast of India.
INS Kadamba or Naval Base Karwar or Project Seabird is an Indian Navy base located near Karwar in Karnataka. [2] The first phase of construction of the base, code-named Project Seabird , was completed in 2005 and the base was commissioned on 31 May 2005.
India evaluated the Russian Sukhoi Su-33, but chose the lighter Mikoyan MiG-29K as Vikramaditya was smaller and lacked an aircraft catapult. [17] On 18 January 2010, it was reported that India and Russia were close to signing a deal for 29 MiG-29K fighters to operate from IAC-I. [ 18 ] In addition, the navy signed a deal for six naval-variants ...
A Bréguet 1050 Alizé anti-submarine aircraft taking off from INS Vikrant. The first naval air station, INS Garuda, was inaugurated in Cochin on 11 May 1953. [5] This went hand-in-hand with the commissioning of the No.550 Squadron, [6] utilising Short Sealand aircraft [7] and Fairey Firefly aircraft [8]