Aircraft Carriers
- INS Vikrant (at bottom) and INS Viraat together in Mumbai.
INS Vikrant IAC-1 fitting out LOA 860′ TDISP 40,000 tons
Google image splicing issue with two overlapping images gives Vikrant another 270′, making it fictitiously a 1,130′ foot behemoth!
Kiev Class (heavily modified) LOA 930′ TDISP 45,400 tons (1 active)
INS Vikramaditya (2013 ex-Russian Admiral Gorshkov) see Russian listing for pre-conversion views. Converted from an aircraft cruiser to a full carrier.
Centaur class light fleet carrier LOA 744′ TDISP 28,000 tons
INS Viraat R-22 (ex-HMS Hermes – Veteran of Falklands War) (1959-1984 in British service), transferred to India 1987, decommissioned 2017. As of 2020 this carrier’s fate remains uncertain, with some efforts to save the carrier as a museum ship in Britain.
HMS Hermes 1966 activating anti-fallout spray. This was long before the installation of the “Ski jump” to operate Harrier jump jets in 1981 © IWM (A 35041)
INS Viraat R-22 during Exercise Malabar 2007 US Navy Official 60247
INS Viraat R-22 NARA 330-CFD-DN-SD-06-05771 PH3 Shannon E. Renfroe, USN
Majestic class light fleet carrier LOA 700′ TDISP 19,500 tons
INS Vikrant R-11 (1961 – 1997). Originally British carrier, planned to be HMS Hercules, left incomplete 1945 – 1957, when the vessel was sold to India and completed with numerous updates, including an angled flight deck. Museum ship 1997-2010, then scrapped 2015
Aerial view of INS Vikrant R-11, 1987 NARA 330-CFD-DN-SN-88-09660
