INS Ganga (F22)

INS Ganga
Career
Name: INS Ganga (F22)
Namesake: Ganga River (the Ganges)
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Commissioned: 30 December 1985
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:Godavari class
Displacement:3600 tons standard,
3850 tons full load
Length:126.4 metres
Beam:14.5 metres
Draught:4.5 metres
Propulsion:2 turbines with 30,000 hp motors; 2 550 psi (3,800 kPa) boilers; 2 shafts
Speed:27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:4,500 mi (7,200 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement:313 (incl. 40 Officers & 13 Aircrew)
Sensors and
processing systems:		1 x Signaal D-band radar
1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) E-band radar
2 x Signaal ZW06 or Don Kay I-band radars for navigation
Bharat APSOH hull mounted sonar, Fathoms Oceanic VDS and Type 162M sonar
Armament:4 x P-20M (SS-N-2D Styx) AShMs in single-tube launchers
Barak SAM system
2 x 57mm (twin) guns at 90° elevation
4 x AK-230 30mm gunmounts with 85° elevation (in CIWS role only)
6 x 324mm ILAS 3 torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or NST 58 anti-submarine torpedoes
Aircraft carried:2 helicopters
Sea King Mk.42B or HAL Chetak

INS Ganga (F22) is a Godavari-class guided-missile frigate of the Indian Navy. Built in Mumbai by Mazagon Dock Limited, she was commissioned on 30 December 1985.

Operations

UNOSOM II

While the UN Security Council Resolution 954, extended the UN mandate for UNOSOM II in Somalia to March 1995, the United States and other NATO members of the mission abandoned the peacekeeping effort and withdrew from Somalia over a year earlier. As the mission approached its scheduled end, the situation on the ground continued to deteriorate. With no other international support forthcoming, INS Ganga along with INS Godavari and INS Shakti were deployed to Mogadishu in December 1994 to support the withdrawal of the Indian Army's 66 Brigade, including the 2nd Battalion, Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (2 JAKLI).[1]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/PEACE/Somalia.html