INS Mormugao

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INS Mormugao floats on her own post launch.jpg
INS Mormugao floats post launch
History
India
Name: Mormugao
Namesake: Mormugao
Operator: Indian Navy
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Way number: D67
Laid down: 4 June 2015
Launched: 17 September 2016
Commissioned: Est. 2022
Identification: Pennant number: D67
Status: Under construction
General characteristics
Class and type: -class stealth guided missile destroyer
Displacement:

7,500 t (7,400 long tons; 8,300 short tons) standard

8,100 t (8,000 long tons; 8,900 short tons) full load
Length: 163 m (535 ft)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft)
Draft: 6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion:
  • Combined gas and gas system: Twin Zorya M36E gas turbine plants with 4 × DT-59 reversible gas turbines and 2 × RG-54 gearboxes
  • 2 × Bergen/GRSE KVM-diesel engines, 9,900 hp (7,400 kW) each
  • 4 × 1 MWe Wärtsilä WCM-1000 generator sets driving Cummins KTA50G3 engines and Kirloskar 1 MV AC generators
Speed: In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance: 45 Days
Crew: 300 (50 officers and 250 sailors)
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • Elbit Systems Deseaver MK II counter-measures systems and defensive aids suite
  • Kavach chaff system
Armament:
  • Anti-air missiles:
  • 4 × 8-cell VLS, for a total of 32
  • Barak 8 missiles (Range: 0.5 km (0.31 mi) to 100 km (62 mi) or Barak 8ER (Range: 0.5 km (0.31 mi) to 150 km (93 mi)[1][2]
  • Anti-ship/Land-attack missiles:
  • 2 × 8-cell UVLM for 16 BrahMos anti-ship and land-attack missiles
  • Guns:
  • 1 × BAE 5 inch 62-calibre Mk 45 naval gun[3]
  • 4 × AK-630 CIWS
  • Anti-submarine warfare:
  • 4 × 533 mm Torpedo tubes
  • 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers
Aircraft carried: 2 × Westland Sea King or HAL Dhruv[4]
Aviation facilities:

INS Mormugao is the second ship of the -class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. She is being constructed at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), and has been launched on 17 September 2016. The ship is expected to get commissioned by 2022.[6]

Construction[edit]

The keel of Mormugao was laid down on 4 June 2015, and she was launched on 17 September 2016 at Mazagon Dock Limited of Mumbai.[7][8][9][10]

She is named after the port Mormugao in Goa.[11]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Naval Barak-8 Missiles, Israel, India Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, naval-technology.com, Accessed 25 November 2014
  2. Barak 8 / MR-SAM Test Program to Begin in Early 2012 Archived 2014-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), 21 November 2011
  3. "Trump Administration approves sale of $1 billion worth of naval guns to India". LiveMint. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  4. "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  5. "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  6. "Navy's Most Advanced Guided Missile Destroyer "Mormugao" launched in mumbai". NDTV. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. "Russia to help India build 4 guided-missile destroyers". Indrus. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  8. "Project 15B". Global Security. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  9. Sheshrao, Vishnudas (15 April 2015). "Indigenously built warship ready for launch". freepressjournal. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  10. "Navy's Next Destroyer Line Christened Visakhapatnam-class, 1st Launch Next Week". LiveFist defence. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20210502092157/https://www.deccanherald.com/content/566564/navy-destroyer-named-goa-port.html