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Third Anti Submarine warfare corvette for Indian Navy launched in Kolkata; Stealth Corvette
Topic Started: Mar 26 2013, 11:29 PM (1,544 Views)
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Third Anti Submarine warfare corvette for Indian Navy launched in Kolkata

Kolkata, Mar. 26 (ANI): The third Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette for the Indian Navy (IN) designed under Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy's Directorate of Naval Design, being built by one of India's leading shipbuilders, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), was launched here on Tuesday.

Named after an island - Kiltan - in the Lakshwadeep archipelago of India, the ASW Corvette was launched by Chitra Joshi from GRSE mainyard in the presence
of Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral DK Joshi, Chairman and
Managing Director, GRSE, Rear
Admiral (Retd) A K Verma and
other officials from the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces and West Bengal administration.

With nearly 90 percent
indigenisation content aimed to be achieved in the
manufacturing of the ship, the
efforts made by Indian Navy
and Defence Shipyards towards the national goal of indigenisation and self-reliance
got a major impetus with this
latest ASW Corvette launch.

The Indian Navy also got closer
to acquiring the ASW platforms
that will stealthily seek and
destroy lurking enemy
submarines as the first GRSE
built ASW Corvette, Kamorta, is expected to be delivered to IN
this year. The remaining three
ships, according to GRSE, will be delivered by 2016. The fourth ASW Corvette will be launched in 2014, GRSE CMD Rear Admiral Verma stated.

Lauding efforts of GRSE in detail designing of the ship, the Navy Chief singled out its technological landmark, as
being the first ship in the country built with a composite superstructure. The superstructure made of carbon fibre composite material has been successfully integrated with the main hull of the ship.
Besides reducing the top weight, it will provide improved stealth features and reduce life cycle maintenance costs.

The ship's hull form is highly efficient with excellent sea-keeping and manoeuvrability
characteristics having an overall length of 109 metres. The ship can cut through the sea at a very high speed of 25 Knots. Hull of the ship is built with warship grade high tensile indigenous steel.

The ship's advanced stealth features will make her less susceptible to detection and help in effective deployment of soft kill measures.

The ships will be fitted with complete indigenous state-of-the-art weapons and sensors, including a medium range gun, torpedo tube launchers, rocket launchers and close-in weapon system. These ships are also equipped with a Bow mounted Sonar and are capable of deploying a helicopter, adding considerable punch to the ship's anti-submarine capability. These ships also feature an advanced Integrated Platform Management System for
controlling and co-ordinating
the propulsion, auxiliary and
power generation equipment.

The new P-28 ASW corvettes
also mark many firsts including
introduction of the 'rail-less helo traversing system' to handle a helicopter on board the ship, foldable hangar door, use of indigenous DMR 249A steel and carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) superstructure integrated with the steel hull of the ship.

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Specifications :

Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37
mph)

Sensors and processing systems:

Revati Central Acquisition Radar
EL/M-2221 STGR fire-control radar
BEL Shikari
BEL RAWL02 (Signaal LW08)
antenna communication grid -
Gigabit Ethernet-based
integrated ship borne data network, with a fiber optic
cable backbone running through the vessel
HUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array)
Bomber Electronic warfare (EW) suites - BEL Ajanta Electronic warfare & decoys: DESEAVER MK

Armament:
1 X 76.2 mm Oto SRGM
8 x 3M54 Klub 2 x AK-630M CIWS
2 X RBU-6000 (IRL) anti-
submarine rocket launcher
16x Barak SAM
2x3 Torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 1 Westland Sea King Mk.42B
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^ :armyeek: Interested in exports? Would India submit a bid for PN frigate?
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Mar 27 2013, 03:53 AM
^ :armyeek: Interested in exports? Would India submit a bid for PN frigate?
we have been making warships for quite long now, currently we r making Frigates n Destroyers upto 6000-8000 tonnes n Corvettes n OPVs upto 3000 tonnes. Our warships r generally heavily armed n we have even started manufacturing stleath warships too.

We have started to export from past we years only n uptill now we have exported only OPV n corvette.

India Exports OPV to Mauritius

Pipavav Seals Indian Export Record $ 452 Million OPV Deal

But idk if India would bid for Philippines Frigate or not but if we did we can provide serious competition...
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