The Delivery of Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
The Delivery of Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
The Delivery of Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
The Delivery of Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
The Delivery of Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
According to Russia's "Kommersant" reported on September 17, of Russia modified second-hand aircraft carrier for the Indian Navy INS Vikramaditya the power device in the Barents Sea trials of serious failures, resulting incarrier delivery date again postponed, will be postponed at least a year or so.
According to sources in Russia, INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier during a sea trial failure, paralysis in seven of the eight steam boilers. The northern city of Severodvinsk machinery manufacturing enterprise experts to assess the damage to equipment status, consider how the carrier is transported back to the dock. And then will begin to eliminate the fault.
The accident is bound to affect the delivery date of the aircraft carrier. According to the most optimistic estimates, the Indian Navy aboard the aircraft carrier no earlier than October 2013.
A disclosure of sources close to Russia's Rosoboronexport said, INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier is a serious failure during sea trials. July 8, the aircraft carrier for the first time to leave the the North machinery manufacturing enterprises dock into the Barents Sea, according to plan is scheduled to test 124 days.
One of the priority task is to test aircraft carrier power plant. The aircraft carrier left the northern machinery manufacturing enterprises, initially without any big problems in low-speed smooth sailing. But the provisions of the pilot scheme also sailing at maximum speed, the problem appears.
The carrier just to accelerate to 30 last week, alerting system suddenly issued a power unit failure signal, the aircraft carrier parked directly in place. Later found in 7 of the 8 constitute a power plant steam boiler seriously damaged.