NAVYPEDIA

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

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.