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Know more about the floating airfield of India INS Vikramaditya

New Delhi: INS Vikramaditya, India's floating airfield, will head home this month completely transformed from the vessel it was at the time of its induction into the Russian fleet in the early 1990s.  The ship

India TV News Desk Updated on: November 15, 2013 6:34 IST


Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet and Russian Navies before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget.



A cash-strapped Russia first offered the partly-burnt Gorshkov to India as a gift in 1994, provided the costs for refit and fighters were paid.


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