Kiev-class aircraft carrier R33 Vikramaditya arrives at Kanwar

Former Soviet aircraft carrier has reached the Indian coast.  INS Vikramaditya (R33) (Sanskrit, Vikramāditya meaning "Brave as the Sun" is a Project 11430 modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier .
The Vikramaditya is to become India’s second aircraft carrier.   The deal also included the purchase of 12 single-seat Mikoyan MiG-29K 'Fulcrum-D' (Product 9.41) and 4 dual-seat MiG-29KUB aircraft (with an option for 14 more aircraft) at US$1 billion, 6 Kamov Ka-31 "Helix" reconnaissance and anti-submarine helicopters,
The Vikramaditya, formerly known as the Admiral Gorshkov, arrived at a naval base in Kanwar in the western state of Karnataka on December 7.


General characteristics
Class & type:     Modified Kiev-class
Type:     Aircraft carrier
Displacement:     45,400 tons of loaded displacement[5][6]
Length:     284 metres (932 ft) (overall)
Beam:     60 metres (200 ft)[7]
Draught:     10.2 metres (33 ft)
Decks:     22[8]
Installed power:     6 turbo alternators and 6 diesel alternators which generate 18 MWe[8]
Propulsion:     8 turbopressurized boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp[8]
Speed:     in excess of 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:     7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km)
13,500 nautical miles (25,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)[9]
Endurance:     45 days[8]
Complement:     1,600 - 2,000[7]
Sensors and
processing systems:     Long range Air Surveillance Radars, LESORUB-E, Resistor-E radar complex, CCS MK II communication complex and Link II tactical data system[8]
Armament:    

    AK-630 CIWS
    Barak 8 (LRSAM)[10][11][12]

Aircraft carried:    

Maximum of 36 aircraft including:

    30 × Mikoyan MiG-29K Multi-Role fighters
    6 × Kamov Ka-31 AEW&C and Kamov Ka-28 ASW helicopters[13]

Aviation facilities:    

    Two acre flight deck.[14]
    14 degree ski-jump ramp
    Three 30 m wide arrester gears and three restraining gears.