INS Rana (D52)
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| Career |  Indian Navy |
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| Name: | INS Rana |
| Builder: | 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant |
| Commissioned: | 28 June 1982 |
| Homeport: | Visakhapatnam |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Badge: |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Rajput class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,950 tons standard, 4,974 tons full load |
| Length: | 147 metres (482 ft) |
| Beam: | 15.8 metres (52 ft) |
| Draught: | 5 metres (16 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 72,000 hp |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 miles (6,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) 2,600 miles (4,200 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 320 (including 35 officers) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Navigation; 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency, Air; 1 x MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band, Air/Surface; 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, Communication; Inmarsat, Sonar; 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar |
| Armament: | 4 x SS-N-2 AShM, 4 x P-20M (NATO: SS-N-2D) missiles in single-tube launchers, 1 x 76 mm main gun, 4 x 30mm AK-230 guns, 2 x S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM in twin launchers, 1 x 533mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher, 2 x RBU-6000 anti-submarines mortars |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x Ka-28 or HAL Chetak helicopter |
INS Rana (D52) is a Rajput class destroyer in active service with the Indian Navy. She was commissioned on 28 June 1982.[1]
She is a redesigned Soviet Kashin class guided missile destroyer.
[edit] History
INS Rana serves in the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy. Her home port is Visakhapatnam.
With INS Ranjit (D53), she made a call at Qingdao Port, PRC in mid-April 2007.[2]
In April 2008, she visited Bangkok, Thailand with INS Kirpan (P44). Later that month she visited Manila, Philippines.[3]
On 5-6 June 2010, she made a friendly visit to Fremantle, Australia to enhance bilateral cooperation between the Indian and Australian navies.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Rajput (Kashin II) Class". Bharat Rakshak. http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Ships/Active/181-Rajput-Class.html. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "INS Rana, INS Ranjit Call On Qingdao Port in China". Indian Defence. 2007-04-23. http://bharatdefence.blogspot.com/2007/04/ins-rana-ins-ranjit-call-on-qingdao.html. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "INS Rana Arrives in the Philippines". http://www.phindia.info/articles/news45.php. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
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