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VIKRANT aircraft carrier


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
विक्रांत [Vikrant] R11?   Cochin SYd, Kochi 28.2.2009 12.8.2013 2020 building (2019)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

32000

Displacement full, t

44700

Length, m

235.0 pp 262.5 oa

Breadth, m

32.5 wl 60.8 oa

Draught, m

8.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

COGAG: 4 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines

Power, h. p.

120000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

7500(18)

Armament

2 x 8 Barak-8 SAM (VLS, 16 Barak-8), 4 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact SR, 34 aircraft (12 MiG-29K, 12 Tejas, 10 Ka-31)

Electronic equipment

EL/M-2248, RAN-40L radars, HUMSA NG sonar, ECM, decoy RL, CCS

Complement

1560



Air group


Year Fighters Helicopters
as planned 12 MiG-29K, 12 Tejas 10 Ka-31


Standard scale images


<i>Vikrant</i>
Vikrant


Aircraft facilities

(fd - 10,117 m², ha - m² / m³): Flight deck: 262.5 x 60.8m. Hangar: m. There are 2 deck-edge elevators (30t). 14° takeoff ski-jump and 3-wires arrested gear. Hangar contains 17 aircraft.

Project history

Originally called the Air Defense Ship (ADS) and also known as the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC). Approved by the finance and defense ministries in March 1999 and given Cabinet Committee on Security approval in June to allocate roughly $750 million for construction of a ship whose genesis began in the mid-1980s. Is to employ a 14° ski-jump bow for takeoffs and arrestor wires for landing (STOBAR: Short Take-Off But Arrested Landing). The building facility for the ship was completed 23.1.2003. A contract for construction of the first unit was awarded to Cochin in March 2005. In 2003 the Indian government expressed a desire to build three of these vessels, but budgetary limitations may dictate otherwise. Two pairs of fin stabilizers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.