| Career | Indian Navy |
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| Name: | INS Rajput |
| Namesake: | Rajput |
| Owner: | indian navy |
| Operator: | indian navy |
| Builder: | 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1980 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Rajput class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,950 tons standard, 4,974 tons full load |
| Length: | 147 m (482 ft) |
| Beam: | 15.8 m (52 ft) |
| Draught: | 5 m (16 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 72,000 hp |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) 2,600 miles (4,200 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 320 (including 35 officers) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Navigation; 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency, Air; 1 x MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band, Air/Surface; 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, Communication; Inmarsat, Sonar; 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar |
| Armament: | 4 x Brahmos supersonic missiles, 1 x Dhanush ballistic missile, 1 x 76 mm main gun, 4 x 30 mm AK-230 guns, 2 x S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM twin launchers, 1 x 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher, 2 x RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x Ka-28 or HAL Chetak helicopter |
INS Rajput (D51) is a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput class destroyers of the Indian Navy. It was commissioned on September 30, 1980.
INS Rajput served as a trial platform for the BrahMos cruise missile. The 4 P-20M single launchers (port and starboard) were replaced by two boxed launchers, each with 4 cells. A new variant of the Prithvi-III missile was test fired from the ship on March 2007.[1] The ship is capable of attacking land targets, as well as anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare in a taskforce-defense or carrier-escort role.[2] The Rajput tracked the Dhanush Ballistic missile during a successful test in 2005.[3]
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