SEVERODVINSK, NORTH RUSSIA (PTI): The late delivery of INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier will not adversely impact Indo-Russian defence cooperation as such major projects are not very common, a top Russian shipbuilder has said.
"Such shipbuilding projects are undertaken once in a century. The Indian Navy is well aware that it was a very complicated project to transform a Soviet-built heavy aircraft carrying cruiser with VTOL jump jets into a regular aircraft carrier," United Shipbuilding Corporation Vice-President Igor Ponomaryov said.
"The delay will not have any adverse impact on our bilateral cooperation. We have scores of ongoing projects with the Indian Navy, including India's indigenous aircraft carrier project," he told reporters.
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