INS Himgiri (F34)

History
India
Name:	INS Himgiri
Namesake:	Himgiri Range
Launched:	6 May 1970
Commissioned:	23 November 1974
Decommissioned:	6 May 2005
Fate:	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type:	-class frigate
Displacement:	2682 tons (standard); 2962 tons (full load);
Length:	113 m (371 ft)
Beam:	13 m (43 ft)
Draught:	4.3 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × 550 psi boilers; 2 × 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) motors;
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	267 (incl 17 officers)
Sensors and ; processing systems:	Signaal DA05 / BEL PFN513 radar; Signaal LW08 / BEL RAWL02 surface radar; Signaal ZW06 / BEL RASHMI navigation radar; Signaal M-45 navigation radar; Westinghouse SQS-505 / Graesby 750 sonar; Type 170 active attack sonar;
Armament:	2 × MK.6 Vickers 115 mm guns; 4 × AK-230 30 mm guns; 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns; 2 × triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or the Indian NST-58 torpedoes;
Aircraft carried:	1 Westland Sea King or HAL Chetak

INS Himgiri (F34) was a -class frigate of the Indian Navy. Himgiri was commissioned into the Navy on 23 November 1974. She was decommissioned on 6 May 2005.

A new ship with this name belonging to the new Nilgiri class was launched in December 2020.^[2]

Operations[edit | edit source]

INS Himgiri holds the record for the number of days at sea in a single deployment for a conventional ship of the Indian Navy. In 1976, she was the first ship of the Indian Navy to shoot down a pilotless aircraft.