[Celtic Conservative]

Is the Vikramaditya in the same class as the carrier the chicoms are currently refitting?

CC

[GeronL]

The Vikramidtya is a modified Kiev class carrier

was the Admiral Gorshkov in Soviet times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Vikramaditya

[sukhoi-30mki]

No,

The Vikramaditya was a converted Kiev class ship, which was meant to be a missile-carrying STOVL carrier. So, it was smaller in size and had inherent design limitations compared to Liaoning, which was meant to be a ‘pure’ carrier and was significantly larger in size.

Hence, the refit ended up hurting India badly.