Weapon systems of the Indian Navy

The Department of Defence Production of the Ministry of Defence is responsible for the indigenous production of equipment used by the Indian Navy and the other armed forces. It comprises the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories under control of the Ordnance Factories Board and eight Defence PSUs: HAL, BEL, BEML, BDL, MDL, GSL, GRSE and Midhani. The present weapon systems of the Indian Navy are:

Submarine-launched ballistic missilesEdit

Sagarika SLBM
K4 SLBM (deployed on Arihant-class submarine for trials)^[1]
K-5 SLBM (Under development)^[2]
K-6 SLBM (Under development)^[3]

Ship launched ballistic missilesEdit

Dhanush

Cruise/anti-ship missilesEdit

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is becoming the primary anti-ship missile of the Indian Navy.

BrahMos Hypersonic Cruise Missile (Under development)
BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile
3M-54E/3M-14E Klub Anti-Ship/Land Attack Cruise Missile (SS-N-27 Sizzler)
Kh-35 (SS-N-25 SwitchBlade)
P-20 (SS-N-2D Styx)
Sea Eagle missile
Harpoon (missile)
Exocet missile (Used by class)
NASM-SR(Under development)

Air to air missilesEdit

Surface to air missilesEdit

VL-SRSAM

Barak 1 - Being replaced by VL-SRSAM missile.
Barak 8
SA-N-12 (SA-17 Grizzly)
SA-N-11 (SA-19 Grison)
SA-N-7 (SA-11 Gadfly)
SA-N-5
SA-N-4 (OSA-M)
SA-N-1 (S-125M)
SA-16 (Igla MANPAD)
VL-SRSAM

TorpedoesEdit

Varunastra advanced heavyweight torpedo of the Indian Navy.

Whitehead A244-S anti-submarine torpedo
APR-3E torpedo
CET-65E torpedo
Type 53-65KE torpedo (passive wake homing)
TEST 71/76 anti-submarine, active and passive homing torpedo
AEG-SUT Mod-1 wire-guided, active/passive homing torpedo
DM2A4 Seahake torpedo
Advanced Light Torpedo Shyena
Varunastra
Takshak (under development)^[4]

Main gunsEdit

A-190(E) 100mm
100mm AK-100 naval gun
AK-176-M 76mm gun
AK-76/62 76mm gun
Twin mount gun (76mm)
OTO Melara Otobreda 76 mm gun
Mk.6 Vickers 114mm gun
Bofors 40mm/57mm/60mm guns
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
CRN-91 30 mm cannon (for patrol boats)

Air defence gunsEdit

AK-630 six-barreled 30 mm Gatling gun
AK-230 twin 30 mm gun
CADS-N-1 Kashtan

ASW rocket launchersEdit

ReferencesEdit

↑ "EXPRESS EXCLUSIVE: Maiden Test of Undersea K-4 Missile From Arihant Submarine". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
↑ "India plans 5,000-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile". Hindustan Times. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
↑ "DRDO on long range Pralay, K5 to stalemate China soon". The New Indian Express. 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
↑ SUBRAMANIAN, T. S. "Underwater might". Frontline. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

External linksEdit

Mines and rockets
Indian Navy at Bharat-rakshak.com

[1] "EXPRESS EXCLUSIVE: Maiden Test of Undersea K-4 Missile From Arihant Submarine". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.

[2] "India plans 5,000-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile". Hindustan Times. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[tnie-3] "DRDO on long range Pralay, K5 to stalemate China soon". The New Indian Express. 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.

[:0-4] SUBRAMANIAN, T. S. "Underwater might". Frontline. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]