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23 June 2012 Pacific Sentinel
Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (former Russian aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Gorshkov) will finish sea trials in the White Sea
this week, a source in shipbuilding industry told ITAR-TASS today.
"Experts of Sevmash modernized the carrier are satisfied with the fact that the ship's characteristics exceeded required ones", pointed out
the source.
"The ship runs trials by our crew; trial team and Indian naval officers are on board as well", he added.
The source said that in the next week Vikramaditya being replenished with fuel, water and food would set a course from the White Sea to the
Barents Sea "to start test flights of deck-based MiG-29K fighters".
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