INS Rajput (D51)

For other ships of the same name, see INS Rajput.
INS Rajput underway
Career
Name: INS Rajput
Namesake: Rajput
Owner: Indian Navy
Operator: Indian Navy
Builder: 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
Commissioned: 30 September 1980
Identification: Pennant number: D51
Status: in active service, as of 2015
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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 or 1 x Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar at D-band (installed on INS Ranjit),
  • Air/Surface: 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, replaced by 1 x EL/M-2238 STAR[1]
  • Communication: Inmarsat,
  • Sonar: 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar replaced with Bharat HUMSA during MLR, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar
Armament:Anti-surface:

Air-defence:

  • 2 x S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM launchers

Guns:

Anti-submarine:

  • 1 x 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher,
  • 2 x RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars,
Aircraft carried:1 x HAL Chetak helicopter
INS Rajput firing a BrahMos missile

INS Rajput is a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput-class destroyers of the Indian Navy. She was commissioned on September 30, 1980. Commodore (later Vice Admiral) Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani was her first commanding officer.

Rajput served as a trial platform for the BrahMos cruise missile. The 2 P-20M inclined single launchers (port and starboard) were replaced by two boxed launchers, each with 2 Brahmos cells. A new variant of the Prithvi-III missile was test fired from Rajput on March 2007.[2] She is capable of attacking land targets, as well as fulfilling anti-aircraft and anti-submarine roles as a taskforce or carrier escort.[3] The Rajput tracked the Dhanush ballistic missile during a successful test in 2005.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Friedman, Norman (2006). The Naval Institute guide to world naval weapon systems (5th ed. ed.). Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute. p. 243. ISBN 1557502625.
  2. ↑ domain-b.com: Dhanush, naval surface-to-surface missile, test fired successfully
  3. ↑ BRAHMOS NAVAL VERSION TESTED SUCCESSFULLY
  4. ↑ http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MISSILES/Prithvi.html

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