INS Porbandar

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History
India
Name: Porbandar
Namesake: Porbandar
Operator: Indian Navy
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Yard number: 12707
Laid down: 19 July 2018
Completed: Est. 2024
Commissioned: Est. 2025
Identification: Pennant number: D69
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 (534 ft 9 in)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft: 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
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; 35 mph)
Range: 4,000 nmi (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[3]
  • Guns:
  • 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 Porbandar is the fourth and last ship of the -class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. As of 2021, she is currently under construction by Mazagon Dock Limited. The ship is expected to be commissioned by 2025.[3]

Construction[edit]

The keel of INS Porbandar was laid down in 2018. She will be last ship under the Project 15B and join the navy in 2025. There is not much information available in the public domain about the ship. She has been named after the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi and port city of Gujarat.

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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "All About the INS Visakhapatnam, Navy's Most Powerful Destroyer". NDTV. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
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