INS Ranjit (D53)
History
Name:
INS Ranjit
Builder:
61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
Commissioned:
24 November 1983
Homeport:
Vishakapatnam
Identification:
Pennant number : D53
Status:
in active service, as of 2015[update]
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General characteristics
Class & type:
Rajput class destroyer
Displacement:
3,950 tons standard,
4,974 tons full load
Length:
147 m (482 ft)
Beam:
15.8 m (52 ft)
Draught:
5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion:
4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 72,000 hp
Speed:
35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:
4,000 mi (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 or 1 x Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar at D-band (installed on INS Ranjit ),
Air/Surface: 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, replaced by 1 x EL/M-2238 STAR [ 1]
Communication: Inmarsat ,
Sonar: 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar replaced with Bharat HUMSA during MLR, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar
Armament:
Anti-surface:
4 × SS-N-2D Styx AShM missiles
Air-defence:
2 × S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM launchers
Guns:
1 × 76.2 mm main gun,
4 × 30 mm AK-630M CIWS
Anti-submarine:
1 × 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher,
2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars,
Aircraft carried:
1 x HAL Chetak helicopter
INS Ranjit is the third of the five Rajput -class destroyers built for the Indian Navy . Ranjit was commissioned on 24 November 1983.
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