what is ins vikramaditya
INS Vikramaditya (Sanskrit, VikramÄditya (à¤­à¤¾ à¤¨à¥ à¤ªà¥ à¤µà¤¿à¤à¥à¤°à¤®à¤¾à¤¦à¤¿à¤¤à¥à¤¯) meaning Brave as the Sun ) is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier which entered into service with the Indian Navy in 2013.She has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary 1st century BCE emperor of Ujjain, India.riginally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet and later with the Russian Navies (as Admiral Gorshkov) before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget.