INS Vikramaditya will have a complement of indigenously-built and developed ALH Dhruv choppers along with SeaKing helicopters.
With over 1,600 personnel on board, INS Vikramaditya would literally be a ‘floating City' with a mammoth logistical requirement of nearly a lakh of eggs, 20,000 litres of milk and 16 tonnes of rice per month.
“With a complete stock of provisions, she (the vessel) is capable of sustaining herself at sea for a period of about 45 days.
“With a capacity of over 8,000 tonnes of load, she is capable of operations up to a range of over 7,000 nautical miles or 13,000km,” a Navy release said. The ship is powered by eight boilers and can achieve top speeds of 30 knots per hour.
“Almost everything on the Vikramaditya is new,” Chief Delivery Commissioner of Sevmash shipyard, Igor Leonov said. Leonov, talking to PTI on the Sevmash, said only 40 per cent hull of the vessel was original while rest was absolutely new.
“The Indian Navy, which always maintained its engineers and technicians on the vessel throughout the refit and modernisation process took the right decision to change many aggregates, components and entire cabling, instead of their repairs,” Leonov, who will lead the onboard Russian guaranty team during the Vikramaditya's almost two-month voyage to its home base on the Western coast of India in Karwar, said.
