INS Kolkata
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 INS Kolkata |
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| Career |  Indian Navy |
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| Builder: | Mazagon Dock Limited |
| Laid down: | September 2003 |
| Launched: | 29 March 2006 |
| Commissioned: | 2010 Expected |
| Fate: | To be commissioned |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,800 tons |
| Length: | 163 meters |
| Beam: | 17.4 meters |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Multi-function radar system,Humsa-NG hull mounted sonar and a Nagin active towed array sonar |
| Armament: | 2x8 Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missiles 48 cell Barak 8 SAM 16 Barak 1 SAM 4 x 30 mm AK-630 rapid fire gatling guns twin-tube torpedo launchers anti-submarine rocket launchers |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 Sea King and Dhruv Helicopters |
INS Kolkata is a Kolkata class destroyer (Project 15A) of the Indian Navy. It was launched on 29 March 2006.
Armed with supersonic BrahMos cruise missiles, INS Kolkata is the largest and most lethal multi-role destroyer of the Indian Navy. It will be the first of Project 15 Alpha. Though of the Delhi class, it has been modified extensively to add stealth. As Roopa Byce, wife of Vice-Admiral Sangram Singh Byce, Flag Officer Commanding-In-Chief of the Western Naval Command, pressed a button on Thursday, the warship slid down the slipway of the Mazagon Dock into the Arabian Sea to the tune of Sare jehan se achchha. Ms. Byce named the destroyer, resplendent in colourful buntings, Kolkata. The destroyer's keel was laid in September 2003. It was previously likely to be commissioned in the Navy in 2010. It has now been delayed to 2012 or 2013. [1]Two more Kolkata-class vessels will be inducted in the subsequent two years. The Kolkata has 16 BrahMos launchers — eight on each side. The destroyer is likely to get long-range surface-to-air missiles (SAM). The Mazagon Dock has not named the missile but indicated that it is being "co-developed" by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
[edit] Vertical launch system
A defence source said the destroyer might have a 24-cell vertical launch system for SAMs in its forward and aft areas, making it a total of 48. Four AK-630 rapid-fire guns would back the missiles. The ship will have a gun for surface targets. There are also twin-tube torpedo launchers and anti-submarine rocket launchers. Besides a multi-function radar system, the destroyer has the Humsa-NG hull mounted sonar and a Nagin active towed array sonar. Like the Delhi class, Kolkata will be able to operate two multi-role helicopters. All sensors and weapons are integrated in a state-of-the-art system; the networking of the weapons and sensors will enable the warship to combat multi-threats in different dimensions simultaneously. INS Kolkata's sides are covered and rounded, making detection difficult. All missile launchers and bases of the superstructure are covered for the same reason. A four reversible gas turbine propulsion system will afford the warship to cruise in excess of 30 knots. Chief of the Army Staff Gen. J.J. Singh, who was the chief guest, stressed the need for an advanced and strong navy in the emerging geo-political scenario.
It is designed to carry up to 48 long range surface to air missiles being jointly developed by the DRDO,the only missile that can be thought of in this category is the Indo-Israeli Barak 2.
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[edit] External links
- Kolkata class Kolkata class destroyer @ Bharat-Rakshak.com
- A lethal combination of stealth and strength
- Queen of the high seas
- Navy hit by delay of big-ticket projects
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