Free Republic

Indian Navy performs Joint Exercises with INS Vikramaditya, R33, and INS Viraat, R22 India's newest carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, R33, which India paid the Russians to rebuild and refit from the old Russian Admiral Gorshkov vessel, arrived in the Arabian Sea off of India. It was greeted by India's other carrier, the INS Viraat, R22 and its task force. The two groups then combined and began performing joint exercises. The two carriers, three guided missile destroyers, four guided missile frigates, and a replenishment tanker made up the combined group. The INS Virkamaditya will embark an air wing of 20 Mig-29K...

INS Vikramaditya, to be commissioned as an Indian Navy warship at Severodvinsk, Russia on Saturday, will be the navy's second aircraft carrier, supplementing the venerable INS Viraat. With INS Vikrant, being built in Cochin Shipyard, due to join the fleet by 2015, the navy continues the tradition of sea control through aircraft carriers, inherited from the Royal Navy. Other navies have shied from this expensive and technically-challenging option. Australia decommissioned its lone aircraft carrier, HMAS Melbourne, in 1982, and relies on a fleet of lighter warships and submarines. India, in contrast, commissioned INS Vikrant in 1961 and, after purchasing INS...

Vikramaditya “significant capability-enhancer” for Indian Navy- Commodore Berry September 24, 2013 Yekaterina Vorontsova, Aleksandr Yemelyanenkov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta In this exclusive interview, Commodore Suraj Berry, who will take charge of the INS Vikramaditya, talks about the refurbishment of the aircraft carrier and its recent trials, Indo-Russian naval cooperation and his career in the Indian Navy. Commodore Berry, can you tell us something about the interaction between the Russian and Indian Naval crews during the trials of the INS Vikramaditya”? The interaction and professional understanding between the Russian and Indian Navy has been very good and has stood the test of time...