Indian navy will acquire an aircraft carrier in December 2012

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Indian navy will acquire an aircraft carrier in December 2012

Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (ex-Russian "Admiral Gorshkov") will be delivered to Indian navy on December 4th 2012, ITAR-TASS reports. It has been reported by a representative of military-industrial complex.

"The carrier’s sea trials will be started on May 29th and according to the contract it will be delivered to the Indian party on December 4th", - the source said.

As reported earlier, the carrier will be undergoing sea trials in Barents Sea during 2-3 weeks. And then the testing of shipboard aircraft systems will be started (the testing will take about 3.5 months).