INS Chennai

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An artist's depiction of a Kolkata-class destroyer
Career  Indian Navy
Operator:  Indian Navy
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Laid down: February 2006
Launched: 2 April 2010
Commissioned: March 2014 (Expected)
General characteristics
Class & type: Kolkata-class destroyer
Displacement: 6,800 tons
Length: 163 meters
Beam: 17.4 meters
Speed: In excess of 30 knots
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Thales LW-08 D-band air search radar[1]
  • IAI EL/M-2248 MF-STAR AESA milti-function radar
  • IAI EL/M-2238 L-band STAR surveillance radar
  • BEL HUMSA-NG bow sonar
  • BEL Nagin active towed array sonar[2]
  • BEL Electronic Modular Command & Control Applications (EMCCA Mk4) combat management system
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • Elbit Systems Deseaver MK II countermeasures systems and defensive aids suite
Armament:

Anti-air missiles:
4× 16-cell VLS, for a combination of 64;
Barak 1 missiles (range 1-12 km)
Barak 8 missiles (range 2-70 km)

Anti-ship missiles:
2× 8-cell UVLM for 16 BrahMos anti ship missiles

Guns:
1 × 130 mm gun
4 × AK-630 CIWS

Anti-submarine warfare:
4× Torpedo tubes

2× RBU-6000 anti-submarine rockets
Aircraft carried:

2x helicopters:

INS Chennai is the third ship of the Kolkata-class destroyers being built for the Indian Navy. She is under construction at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) located in Mumbai.[3]

Construction

She was laid down in February 2006, launched in April 2010 and is expected to be in commission in by 2015.[4] It will be the first naval ship named after Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bharat Electronics Ltd. awards LW08 contract to Thales". Thalesgroup.com. 2 July 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  2. ↑ "Indian Navy to get four new destroyers". dnaindia.com. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-02. 
  3. ↑ "Kolkata Class Guided Missile Destroyers, India". Naval Technology. Retrieved 15 June 2013. 
  4. ↑ "India launches indigenous Naval destroyer INS Chennai". Orissa Diary. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
  5. ↑ "Project 15-A destroyer, INS Kochi To be launched on 18 Sep 2009". PIB. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
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