| Career | Indian Navy |
|---|---|
| Name: | INS Himgiri |
| Namesake: | Himgiri Range |
| Commissioned: | 23 November 1974 |
| Decommissioned: | 06 May 2005 |
| Fate: | Decommissioned |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Nilgiri class frigate |
| Displacement: | 2682 tons (standard) 2962 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 113 m |
| Beam: | 13 m |
| Draught: | 4.3 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 550 psi boilers 2 x 30,000 hp motors |
| Speed: | 28 knots |
| Range: | 4000 miles @ 12 knots |
| Complement: | 267 (incl 17 officers)[1] |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Signaal DA05 / BEL PFN513 radar Signaal LW08 / BEL RAWL02 surface radar Signaal ZW06 / BEL RASHMI navigation radar Signaal M-45 navigation radar Westinghouse SQS-505 / Graesby 750 sonar Type 170 active attack sonar |
| Armament: | 2 x MK.6 Vickers 115mm guns 4 x AK-230 30mm guns 2 x Oerlikon 20mm guns 2 x triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or the Indian NST-58 torpedoes |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 Westland Sea King or HAL Chetak |
INS Himgiri (F34) was a Nilgiri class frigate of the Indian Navy.
Himgiri was commissioned into the Navy on November 23, 1974. She was decommissioned on May 06, 2005.
INS Himgiri holds the record for the number of days at sea in a single deployment for a conventional ship of the Indian Navy.
In 1976, she was the first ship of the Indian Navy to shoot down a pilotless aircraft.
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