INS Chennai

An artist's depiction of a Kolkata-class destroyer
Career (India)
Name: Chennai
Operator: Indian Navy
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Laid down: February 2006
Launched: 2 April 2010
Commissioned: 2015 (Expected)
General characteristics
Class and type:Kolkata-class destroyer
Displacement:7,500 tons[1][2]
Length:163 m (535 ft)
Beam:17.4 m (57 ft)
Speed:In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Thales LW-08 D-band air search radar[3]
  • IAI EL/M-2248 MF-STAR S-band AESA multi-function radar
  • IAI EL/M-2238 L-band STAR surveillance radar
  • BEL HUMSA-NG bow sonar
  • BEL Nagin active towed array sonar[4]
  • BEL Electronic Modular Command & Control Applications (EMCCA Mk4) combat management system
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
  • Elbit Systems Deseaver MK II countermeasures systems and defensive aids suite
Armament:Anti-air missiles:

4 × 8-cell VLS, for a total of 32;[5]
Barak 8 missiles (Range: 0.5 km (0.31 mi) to 70 km (43 mi)[6])

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.[7]

Construction

She was laid down in February 2006, launched in April 2010 and is expected to be in commission in by 2015.[8] It will be the first naval ship named after Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Navy gets its largest destroyer". The Hindu. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Largest destroyer project of Navy hit by delay". Defence Express. 6 Jun 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Bharat Electronics Ltd. awards LW08 contract to Thales". Thalesgroup.com. 2 July 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  4. ↑ "Indian Navy to get four new destroyers". dnaindia.com. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  5. ↑ Som, Vishnu (16 August 2014). "On INS Kolkata, PM is Only Partially Correct". NDTV. Retrieved 8 March 2015. At the moment, she is designed to carry only 32 Barak surface-to-air missiles...
  6. ↑ "Israeli navy equipping warships with new missile system: report". XinhuaNet. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "Kolkata Class Guided Missile Destroyers, India". Naval Technology. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "India launches indigenous Naval destroyer INS Chennai". Orissa Diary. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Project 15-A destroyer, INS Kochi To be launched on 18 Sep 2009". PIB. Retrieved 16 June 2013.