INS Ranvir (D54)

INS Ranvir
Career
Name: INS Ranvir
Builder: 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
Commissioned: 28 October 1986
Homeport: Vishakapatnam
Identification: Pennant number: D54
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:
  • 8 x Brahmos supersonic missiles in aft VLS (replaces SAM launcher)
  • 4 x SS-N-2D Styx AShM missiles in inclined launchers

Air-defence:

  • 2 x Barak SAM 8 cell launchers (port and starboard)
  • 1 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 Ka-28 helicopter

INS Ranvir is the fourth of the five Rajput-class destroyers built for the Indian Navy. Ranvir was commissioned on 28 October 1986.

Ranvir along with INS Mysore were anchored just outside Sri Lankan territorial waters to provide security for the Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, and other high-ranking officials at the 15th SAARC summit.[2]

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. ↑ 2 Indian warships anchored near SL

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