New Delhi: India will get aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and nuclear submarine INS Arihant next year providing a much needed boost to country's naval capabilities. Wrapping up a discussion on the performance of his Ministry in the Rajya Sabha, Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said from 2013, the Navy will get five new warships every year which will help in modernising country's naval fleet. "In the early half of...
08:09 PM, May 08, 2012
Moscow: A Russian aircraft carrier which is being refurbished for the Indian Navy will begin sea trials in May for the first time in two decades and is to be handed over to India by December 2012, a shipyard official said Tuesday. The purchase of the Soviet-built Admiral Gorshkov was agreed in 2004 but delivery has been delayed for a long time, taking almost eight years. Its initial completion date...
06:03 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Moscow: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has raised with Russia the issue of delay in the delivery of Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian navy, saying it was important for India that the ship arrives in time. The Gorshkov issue was raised by the Prime Minister during the 12th Indo-Russian Summit talks with President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told newsmen that...
12:11 PM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: India has conveyed its concern to China over the presence of Chinese personnel in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and asserted that it was consistently strengthening its capabilities in the eastern sector to meet any challenge. "We have conveyed our concerns to China, and at the same time we are consistently strengthening our capabilities in the eastern sector to meet any challenge," Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters on...
01:55 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony will be in Moscow on a three-day visit starting Monday to take stock of military cooperation between the two sides and review ongoing projects like delivery of aircraft-carrier Admiral Gorshkov, Su-30 MKI, T-90 tanks and frigates. The Defence Minister will also witness the test-flight of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) which is being developed under an Indo-Russian joint venture. "The Defence Minister will...
11:41 AM, Oct 02, 2011
St Petersburg: Amid the buzz at Russia's most happening naval show - the maritime exhibition at St Petersburg - word is that the Gorshkov aircraft carrier could be further delayed. There's no official confirmation of that neither from the Sevmash shipyard nor the Russian Defence Ministry. But naval sources told CNN-IBN there appeared to be problems with the supply of certain steels to the yard. The sources said this was...
09:59 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma says the enquiry is in its final stage. ...
01:34 PM, May 20, 2010
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The minister also asked the Indian Navy to speed up the second part of the probe into the affair. ...
06:45 PM, Apr 16, 2010
Of the 16 jets, 12 will be single-seaters and four will be twin-seater trainers. ...
09:58 AM, Feb 19, 2010
No details about the price have been reported so far. ...
11:36 AM, Dec 08, 2009
Russian aircraft carrier
Gorshkov was to be delivered to country in 2004. ...
08:20 PM, Jun 04, 2009
Ageing aircraft carrier
Admiral Gorshkov was to be delivered in 2008. ...
10:15 PM, Apr 21, 2009
Opinion is building up in India to scrap the deal on its own. ...
11:20 PM, Nov 17, 2008
Russia threatens to call off the deal if it is not paid $2 billion more. ...
08:58 AM, Nov 15, 2008
A mega-deal for the purchase of 29 MiGs for the Navy is on the cards. ...
04:09 PM, Sep 29, 2008
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