Baku

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Kiev (Project 1143) (Class Overview)
Builder:
Chernomorsky Sudostroitelni Zavod
(Black Sea Shipbuilding Yard)
Nikolayev, Ukraine
Hull Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
December 1987
Keel Laid:
December 1978
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
March 31, 1982
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Sold Jan. 20, 2004 to India and renamed Vikramaditya however the ship is still under
reconstruction in Severomorsk, Russia. Planned turn over to India in 2008


Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
928' 4"
Engines:
4 steam turbines
Beam:
107' 3"
Boilers:
8 turbopressurized
Draft:
32' 10"
Shafts:
4
Flight Deck:
154' 10" (width)
HP:
200,000
Displacement:
36,000 std. / 43,000 full
Speed:
30 knots
Crew:
1,200 (including air group)
Range:
4,000 NM @ 30 knots / 13,500 NM @ 18 knots
Aircraft:
30


Notes:
Renamed Admiral Gorshkov in 1991.


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