INS Ranvir (D54) |
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| Career | Indian Navy |
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| Name: | INS Ranvir |
| Builder: | 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant |
| Commissioned: | 28 October 1986 |
| 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 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: | 4 x SS-N-2, 8 x BrahMos supersonic missiles[1], 1 x 76 mm main gun, 4 x 30 mm AK-630M guns (two gun-mounts replaced with Barak SAM system, 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 Ranvir (D54) is the fourth of the five Rajput class destroyers built for the Indian Navy. Ranvir was commissioned on 28 October 1986.
Ranvir along with INS Mysore were anchored just outside Sri Lankan territorial waters to provide security for the Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, and other high ranking officials at the 15th SAARC summit.[2]
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