‘Viramaditya’ (foreground) and ‘Viraat.’ Indian Navy photo
India Outdoes China With TWO-Carrier Photo Op -- David Cenciotti, War is Boring
New Delhi shows off refurbished Russian flattop
A few days ago we posted the first photos of China’s sole aircraft carrier battle group, built around the refurbished Ukrainian flattop Liaoning. The admittedly impressive photos include important hints of the Chinese Navy’s limitations, including a lack of support ships.
Not to be outdone by Beijing’s dramatic display, on Jan. 5 the Indian Navy released carefully staged snapshots of its own “new” carrier INS Vikramaditya—a rebuilt Russian vessel measuring 284 meters from bow to stern and displacing 40,000 tons of water, making her somewhat smaller than Liaoning.
The photos depict Vikramaditya and her escorts on their way to Karwar on India’s western coast from Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia, where Vikramaditya was refurbished at a cost of more than $2 billion over a period of nine years.
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My Comment: I am not impressed.
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