India To Get Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya By Dec 2012

India will get delivery of its much-awaited aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya from Russia by December next year, Defence Minister A K Antony has said, amid reports that Moscow will hand over the leased Nerpa nuclear submarine next month.

The vexed issue of the delivery of these frontline advanced weapon systems was resolved after crucial parleys between Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov here last night.

“We hope that the induction (of INS Vikramaditya) will take place, on schedule, by December 2012,” Antony told Indian reporters here, saying the Indian navy is “keenly awaiting the induction of the aircraft carrier.”

“We also hope that activities on the MiG-29K are completed to achieve synchronisation with the aircraft carrier,” said the Defence Minister, who co-chaired the 11th session of the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on military-technical cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) yesterday with Serdyukov.

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