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Delivery of Vikrant delayed due to lack of fighters

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India will not be able to take delivery of its aircraft carrier Vikrant due to delays in securing fighters to operate on board the ship.

INS Vikrant being undocked at the Cochin Shipyard Limited in 2015 (05)
Indian Navy [CC BY 2.5 in or CC BY 2.5 in], via Wikimedia Commons


The Financial Express cited Defense Minister Sripad Naik as saying that “issues with the delivery of aviation equipment from Russia” was the cause.

However, TASS later quoted an anonymous Russia source saying Moscow has yet to receive any order for new MiG-29K carrier-borne fighters.

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