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Sea trial of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov postponed | | The sea trial of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, which Russia is to hand over to India , has been postponed to June. The vessel was originally
scheduled to sail for trials in the White Sea and the Barents Sea on May 25. "The
start of the sea trials has been moved to the beginning of June," The Times of
India quoted a spokesperson for the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia where
the ship is being refurbished as saying. The purchase of the Soviet-built Admiral
Gorshkov was agreed in 2005 but delivery to India has been long delayed. The cost
of refurbishing the aircraft carrier, to be renamed INS Vikramaditya, has since
gone up from 947 million U.S. dollars to over 2 billion U.S. dollars, the newspaper
said. Admiral Gorshkov's delivery to the Indian Navy is slated for December 2012.
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