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India to Commission its First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant (IAC-I) by 2019

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INS Vikrant on Schedule, outfitting work to completed in 2016
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According to latest media reports accessed by idrw.org , India’s first indigenously designed and built Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) aka INS Vikrant will complete major outfitting on the ship by 2016 on schedule and will progress to carry out basin trails and extensive sea trials later before it could be delivered to Indian Navy in 2018.

The keel for Vikrant was laid by then Defence Minister A.K. Antony at the Cochin Shipyard on 28 February 2009 was launched on 12 August 2013 and immediately it was re-docked for completion of the rest of the work. at that time about 83% of the fabrication work and 75% of the construction work had been completed.

Modi government after taking charge cleared Rs 19,000 crore for the Phase-II and III building of the 40,000-tonne indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC). India already has spent around Rs 3,500 crores on its construction. Phase-II included completion of major construction work which included work on superstructure and cabling and electrical engineering on the ship. Phase-III was to include Sensors, weapons integration and communication suites.

India already has awarded St. Petersburg’s based Proletarski Zavod company to supply arresting gears and braking machines for INS Vikrant which will be supplied in 2015. Russian built INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier in service with Indian Navy also uses same equipment’s supplied by the same company .

INS Vikrant will be powered by four American LM2500 marine gas turbines produced by GE Aviation which are in service with more than 29 international navies and used in Thai, Italian and Spanish developed Aircraft Carriers. Italian Firm Selex Sistemi will provide air surveillance Naval RAN 40L AESA radar and IFF radar and Israeli EL/M-2248 MF-STAR AESA radar will also be used for INS Vikrant.

INS Vikrant’s main armament will include Indo-Israeli Barak-8/ LR SAM Surface to Air missile systems while Italian defence company Oto Melara will supply 4 OTO Melara 76 mm naval artillery piece.

Source:- INS Vikrant on Schedule, outfitting work to completed in 2016 | idrw.org
 
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Progressing on Schedule! :tup:

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INS Vikrant likely to be undocked by May-end

India is working on two separate projects to ramp up sea-borne aircraft carriers capability.

The under construction indigenous 40,000 tonne INS Vikrant is slated to 'undock' from its building pontoon at Kochi next month, while India's biggest naval warship and aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, is under a minor 're-fit' to complete its Close-In Warfare System, a protection from incoming enemy missiles.

INS Vikrant likely to be undocked by May-end
 
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INS Vikrant launch on May 28 - The Hindu


Updated: May 14, 2015 00:35 IST
INS Vikrant launch on May 28

‘Structural work is over and internal compartments have all been welded in’
India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, will be undocked on completion of structural work at the Cochin Shipyard on May 28.

“All major equipment has gone into the vessel, which has now acquired the shape of an aircraft carrier, with a finished hull. Barring a bit of ongoing work on the super structure, structural work is all over and the internal compartments have all been welded in,” said a yard official.

Outfitting is steadily progressing at the moment, but a major part of it — including piping, electrical cabling, control system wiring — will be carried out after the vessel is launched, marking the culmination of the third stage of work in the second phase of carrier construction for which a contract was signed between Cochin Shipyard and the Navy in December last year.

The extended first phase of work on the carrier was completed in August 2013 when the carrier had its official launch, but there was a delay in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) sanctioning money for the second phase, which as per a schedule prepared in 2010 should be over in 2016.

The CCS sanction for the first phase was Rs. 3,261 crore, while the allocation for the critical second phase is Rs. 2,840 crore. The equipment already fitted in will be set to work towards the end of the ongoing phase after which basin trials will commence in 2017 to be on time for delivery in end-2018. The aircraft carrier will displace over 40,000 tonnes at the time of its induction into the Navy.

Contract with Rosoboronexport
While some 14 contracts have been signed with the Russian Rosoboronexport for the carrier’s aviation complex, delivery of major aviation equipment has not begun yet.

The aviation complex is designed by the Nevskoye Design Bureau, as Vikrant will have a complement of Russian-origin MiG 29 K fighter planes operating from its flight deck alongside the indigenously developed Naval LCA (when it receives operational clearance).

Meanwhile, the yard is awaiting clearances from the Directorate of Naval Design (DND) to start installation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

“Ironically, obsolescence of equipment already delivered and stacked for sometime could pose a problem towards the end of the second phase when they are set to work,” said an official.

Equipment such as the massive gas turbines, for instance, would have outlived its guarantee period by the time the pre-delivery trials begin, he pointed out.
 
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2018 was supposed to be the induction... another 1 year??? No prob...

Vishaal who is going to make it? Most probably CSL....
 
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