INS Ranvijay (D55) |
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| Career | Indian Navy |
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| Name: | INS Ranvijay |
| Builder: | 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant |
| Commissioned: | 15 January 1988 |
| 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[1] |
| Length: | 147 m (482 ft) |
| Beam: | 16 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 EL/M-2238 STAR radar, 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: | 8 x BrahMos supersonic missiles, 1 x 76 mm main gun, 4 x 30 mm AK-630M guns (two gun-mounts replaced with Barak SAM system), 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 Ranvijay (D55) is a Rajput class destroyer in active service with the Indian Navy. Ranvijay was commissioned on 15 January 1988.
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Ranvijay participated in the multinational Malabar Naval Exercise between Australia, India, Singapore, Japan and United States in the Bay of Bengal.
Ranvijay received the best ship of the Eastern Fleet Trophy for the year 2006-2007.
The Indian Navy was a part of the joint forces exercises, Operation Parakram, during the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff.India's first attempt at military coercion achieved only limited success. Operation Parakram, launched in the wake of the December 13, 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament, operation includes 26 Naval Cadets from various part of India under the command of Senior Cadet Captain Ajithkumar Nair from the Kerala and Lakshadweep Directorate. This was the only operation includes Cadets in the history of Indian Defense. Operation Parakram was the first full-scale mobilisation since the 1971 Indo-Pak war. It began on December 15, 2001 after the Cabinet Committee on Security’s (CCS) decision and was completed on January 3, 2002. It finally ended on October 16, 2002 when CCS belatedly recognised that the law of diminishing returns had been operative for many months already. In a face-saving move, CCS declared that troops were being "strategically relocated" and constant vigil would be maintained, especially in J&K. More than a dozen warships were deployed to the northern Arabian Sea.[42]
She has won the prestigious Cock Trophy in the annual Eastern Fleet whaler boat regatta held at the Naval Dockyard on 7 January 2006.[2]
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