Visakhapatnam class Guided Missile Destroyer DDG Indian Navy

Indian Navy - Bhāratīya Nau Senā - Guided Missile Destroyer
Visakhapatnam (Project 15B / P-15B) class DDG

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Ships:

Unit:	Laid down:	Launched:	Commissioned:	STATUS:
D66 INS Visakhapatnam	October 12, 2013	April 20, 2015	November 21, 2021	ACTIVE
D67 INS Mormugao	June 4, 2015	September 17, 2016	December 24, 2022	ACTIVE
D68 INS Imphal	May 19, 2017	April 20, 2019	December 26, 2023	ACTIVE
D69 INS Surat	July 19, 2018	May 17, 2022	January 15, 2025	ACTIVE

Specifications:

Builder: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), Mumbai, India

Displacement: 7,400 tons
Length: 164 meters (538 feet)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft: 6.5 meters (21 ft 4 in)
Speed: 33.5+ knots (62+ km/h)
Range: 9,000 NM (16,700 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 300

Propulsion:
COGAG (combined gas and gas)
2 x Zorya-Mashproekt M36E Marine Gas Turbine Plants
with 2 x 2 DT-59 reversible gas turbines (22,000 shp, each)
and 2 x RG-54 marine reduction gearboxes
2 shafts, 2 controllable pitch propellers

Electric plant:
2 x Bergen/GRSE KVM-diesel engines (9,900 hp / 7,400 kW, each)
4 x 1 MWe Wärtsilä WCM-1000 generator sets driving Cummins KTA50G3 engines and Kirloskar 1 MV AC generators

Armament:

Vertical Launching System / VLS (4 x 8 cells)
for
32 x Barak 8 Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM)

Vertical Launching System / VLS (2 x 8 cells)
for
BrahMos Anti-ship Missiles (SSM)

1 x BHEL (OTO) 76/62 Super Rapid Gun Mount (SRGM)
4 x AK-630M Close-in Weapon System (CIWS)
4 x AWEIL/OFT 12.7 mm M2 Stabilized Remote Controlled Gun (SRCG)

4 x 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes for Varunastra Heavy-weight Torpedoes (HWT)
2 x RBU-6000 / RPK-8 Anti-Submarine Rocket Launchers

Aviation:
flight deck and hangar for 2 helicopter
Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk
HAL Dhruv
Sea King Mk.42B

Systems:
Ship Data Network (SDN)
Automatic Power Management System (APMS)
Combat Management System (CMS)
IAI EL/M-2248 MF-STAR S-band multi-function active electronically scanned array radar (AESA)
BEL RAWL-02/LW-08 L-Band air-search radar
Terma/Tata Scanter-6002 X-Band surface-search radar
BEL HUMSA-NG hull-mounted integrated sonar system
BEL Nagin active towed-array sonar

Electronic warfare & decoys:
DRDO Shakti EW suite (ESM/ECM)
DRDO Nayan COMINT suite
4 x Kavach decoy launchers
2 x Maareech torpedo-countermeasure systems

The Visakhapatnam (P-15B) class guided-missile destroyers (DDG), is a class of indigenous-built destroyers for the Indian Navy. The Visakhapatnam class is an upgraded derivative of its predecessor, the Kolkata class, with improved features of stealth, automation and ordnance.

Designed by the Warship Design Bureau (WDB), a total of four ships are being built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), under the Make in India initiative.

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