INS Kalvari (S50)

INS Kalvari (S50)
Career  Indian Navy
Name: INS Kalvari (S50)
Ordered: 2005
Builder: Mazagon Docks, Mumbai
Laid down: 1 April 2009
Launched: 6 April 2015
Acquired: September 2016
Commissioned: December 2016 (scheduled)
Status: Sea trials
General characteristics
Class and type:Kalvari-class submarine
Type:Submarine
Displacement:1,565 tonnes (1,725 short tons) (CM-2000)
Length:61.7 m (202 ft) (CM-2000)
Beam:6.2 m (20 ft)
Draught:5.4 m (18 ft)
Draft:5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion:Diesel-electric, batteries, and AIP
Speed:20 knots (37 km/h) (submerged)
12 kn (22 km/h) (surfaced)
Range:6,500 nmi (12,000 km) at 8 knots (surfaced)
550 nmi (1,020 km) at 5 knots (submerged)
Endurance:40 days (compact)
50 days (normal)
50+21 days (AIP)
Test depth:>350 metres (1,150 ft) [1]
Complement:31
Armament:6 x 533-mm torpedo tubes for 18 Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes or SM.39 Exocet antiship missiles, 30 mines in place of torpedoes

INS Kalvari (S50) is the first of the Indian Navy's six Kalvari-class submarine. It is a French designed diesel-electric attack submarine which was manufactured in Mumbai.[2]

On 06 April 2015 Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar launched the indigenously-built Scorpène submarine at the Mazagaon Dockyard.[3] This will be inducted into the Indian navy by the end of 2016.[4]

See also

References

  1. http://en.dcnsgroup.com/naval/products/scorpene
  2. "Scorpene Submarine, Built at Mumbai Docks, Launched Into Water". NDTV. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  3. "Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar undocks first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine". Zee news. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  4. "New India submarine enters water". BBC. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
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