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INS Vikramaditya's Brick Work Complete, Ready for Final Trials
Posted on: January 25, 2013
After four months of work on INS Vikramditya, which reported a boiler malfunction, Russia has completed the brick-lining work and is getting ready to take the Indian Navy warship out for sea trials in the Barents by June this year.
The Russian-built warship, the erstwhile Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, will be ready to join the Indian Navy fleet as per the revised schedule of last quarter of 2013, senior Indian Navy officers said here.
Incidentally, The Indian Navy's this year tableau during the Republic Day parade will be a replica of the 44,500-tonne Vikramaditya.
"The insulation work has been completed and now it is ready for sea trials, the last phase of which is now pending, by June. The ship now awaits melting of the ice in the Barents Sea to recommence its delivery acceptance trials," the officers said.
The warship, which can carry nearly 45 MiG-29K naval combat planes, had conducted about 100-day sea trials covering 11,000 nautical miles in the middle of last year. The warship had also carried out aircraft flying and testing of its all aircraft control equipment for about 400 hours during last year's trials.
However, when the vessel was being tested at its maximum speed of 30 knots, it suffered malfunction of three of the eight boilers and damage to the brick lining during the sailing. The malfunctioned boilers were "opened up and set right" after the warship was brought back to the shipyard.
Now it is back in the Sevmash shipyard, where the repair works were completed when the entire insulation was ripped off and new asbestos insulation was provided. Now, the shipyard workers are busy completing all other leftover fittings on the warship before it is taken out to complete the acceptance trials.
"First, the Russian government will accept the warship after trials and then it will be handed over to Indian Navy by September-October. It will sail to India and reach the Indian shores before December this year," officers said.
The ship, with 500 Indian crew already on board, was to be delivered to the Indian Navy in December last, but it has now been postponed by a year.
India had bought Gorshkov for $974 million in 2004 and sent it to Sevmash for repair and refurbishing. However, the cost escalated to $2.34 billion after Sevmash demanded more for additional work and the previously contracted work on the warship, which was agreed to by India in February 2010.
Posted on: January 25, 2013
After four months of work on INS Vikramditya, which reported a boiler malfunction, Russia has completed the brick-lining work and is getting ready to take the Indian Navy warship out for sea trials in the Barents by June this year.
The Russian-built warship, the erstwhile Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, will be ready to join the Indian Navy fleet as per the revised schedule of last quarter of 2013, senior Indian Navy officers said here.
Incidentally, The Indian Navy's this year tableau during the Republic Day parade will be a replica of the 44,500-tonne Vikramaditya.
"The insulation work has been completed and now it is ready for sea trials, the last phase of which is now pending, by June. The ship now awaits melting of the ice in the Barents Sea to recommence its delivery acceptance trials," the officers said.
The warship, which can carry nearly 45 MiG-29K naval combat planes, had conducted about 100-day sea trials covering 11,000 nautical miles in the middle of last year. The warship had also carried out aircraft flying and testing of its all aircraft control equipment for about 400 hours during last year's trials.
However, when the vessel was being tested at its maximum speed of 30 knots, it suffered malfunction of three of the eight boilers and damage to the brick lining during the sailing. The malfunctioned boilers were "opened up and set right" after the warship was brought back to the shipyard.
Now it is back in the Sevmash shipyard, where the repair works were completed when the entire insulation was ripped off and new asbestos insulation was provided. Now, the shipyard workers are busy completing all other leftover fittings on the warship before it is taken out to complete the acceptance trials.
"First, the Russian government will accept the warship after trials and then it will be handed over to Indian Navy by September-October. It will sail to India and reach the Indian shores before December this year," officers said.
The ship, with 500 Indian crew already on board, was to be delivered to the Indian Navy in December last, but it has now been postponed by a year.
India had bought Gorshkov for $974 million in 2004 and sent it to Sevmash for repair and refurbishing. However, the cost escalated to $2.34 billion after Sevmash demanded more for additional work and the previously contracted work on the warship, which was agreed to by India in February 2010.
