Kolkata Class Destroyers Update

[ladder]

I usually say blame the Russians, but this is a brand new ship from MDL. The cause of these accidents is lack of proper safety inspection and maintenance cycles. IN needs to hire consultants to take a fine-tooth comb to their engineering departments and give them a kick in the ass.

What kind of maintenance cycle do you propose in pre-commissioning trial?

 

[ladder]

double post.

 

[rock127]

INS Sindhuratna mishap: Two missing naval officers dead - Hindustan Times

 

[Armand2REP]

What kind of maintenance cycle do you propose in pre-commissioning trial?

In this instance requires a safety inspection of all valve covers.

 

[arnabmit]

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[sayareakd]

At this rate we will be like afghan navy.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

This is what happens when you relied so much on imports ..

Its HDW - 209 tot was given back in days, But a SCAM stopped us from making our own submarines, Outdated Kilos were updated by Billions and are now showing there true colours ..

 

[Jagdish58]

This is what happens when you relied so much on imports ..

Its HDW - 209 tot was given back in days, But a SCAM stopped us from making our own submarines, Outdated Kilos were updated by Billions and are now showing there true colours ..

You are right , Pipanav & other Private shipyard has potential govt should give nod for going head with JV with overseas partners to design & build Submarine , Frigate , Destroyers etc . No point in just importing & spend million on upgrades in Public concern shipyard and end up paying with lives of our brave soldiers

 

[venkat]

so many accidents and so many deaths of Navy personnel? very very tragic and something fishy too!!! most of the things are happening in mumbai....a hub for anti national forces!!!! I am shocked!!!!

 

[Neil]

so many accidents and so many deaths of Navy personnel? very very tragic and something fishy too!!! most of the things are happening in mumbai....a hub for anti national forces!!!! I am shocked!!!!

what..?? how?

 

[happy]

RIP to the Officer.

Don't go by the initial report by our media on what happened. The media which cannot get the yard no. correct. INS Kolkata has a yard no. 12701 and not 701 as stated.

Pre-commissioning trials are always risky. Under which interlocks are tested by simulating scenarios and presumably a hardware failure took place.
And what led to it is un-verified. Most probably the hardware failure occurred under stated limits which was being tested.

Good work there ladder. Appreciate you telling this. :thumb:

 

[shiphone]

GE got updated again...

another bird's eyeview here, and interestingly this time , the first P15A Destroyer was berthing alongside with two P15s, which give us a chance to have the refernce to the difference between 2 classes ....

the Air-Defense VLS cells number seems 32 in total...another possibility might be they are the Barak-1's cells only and Barak-8's haven't been mounted yet.

 

[laughingbuddha]

So India will have the distinction of commissioning an aircraft carrier and a DDG escort without AD. Swell

 

[laughingbuddha]

What about the follow on boats? Are the hulls being laid?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

INS Kolkata, navy's most powerful warship, to be delivered next month

Indian warship building is coming of age and the Indo-Pacific region knows it. Last week, when an Indian Navy frigate, INS Shivalik, visited China's Qingdao naval base, China's navy chief, Admiral Wu Shengli, asked the captain for a tour of the Combat Information Centre, the operation heart of the warship. The Shivalik's young skipper, Captain Puruvir Das, turned down Wu's request.

The Chinese admiral would be even more interested in touring INS Kolkata, 7,200 tonnes of bristling steel, which could join the navy as early as next month as the most powerful and high-tech warship in its 140-vessel fleet. Tonne for tonne, the Kolkata will be amongst the most potent battleships in the hotly contested waters of the Indo-Pacific.

Significantly more versatile than the destroyers and frigates that preceded it, the Kolkata's all-round capability --- against enemy submarines, surface warships, anti-ship missiles and fighter aircraft --- will permit it to operate without a bevy of supporting vessels, and also to function as the flagship of a naval task force.

Manned by 325 crewpersons, the Kolkata has an operating range of 15,000 kilometres, extending across the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic and the Pacific. Its four Ukrainian gas turbine engines propel the vessel at 60 kilometres per hour. Two helicopters on board further extend its reach.

Amongst these, according to a 2010 CAG report is the Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LR-SAM) that the navy insisted should replace the venerable Russian Kashmir missile system. The LR-SAM shoots down incoming anti-ship missiles (ASMs) at ranges out to 70 kilometres, protecting the ship far more effectively than the Kashmir. But it has only been operationalised now after India's Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), working in partnership, overcame persistent technological challenges. Even so, the Kolkata is being delivered only with missile launchers fitted, while the 64 missiles that form the ship's complement will be added later.

The two remaining destroyers of Project 15A will follow in short order. By October the second of the class, INS Kochi, is slated to be delivered. INS Chennai will follow her in mid-2015.

Project 15A will eventually cost the navy Rs 11,662 crore. At Rs 3,900 crore per destroyer, that is barely one-third what the UK's Royal Navy has paid for its new Type-45 Daring-class destroyers --- Rs 11,000 crore per vessel.

Yet many regard the Kolkata as more versatile and capable than the Daring. Alongside the world-beating LR-SAM, the Kolkata's 16 Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles allow pinpoint strikes on enemy ships and land targets as far away as 295 kilometres.

Besides anti-air, anti-ship and anti-surface capabilities, Project 15A destroyers are also potent anti-submarine platforms. New generation HUMSA hull-mounted sonar, supplemented with the Nagan active towed array sonar --- both developed by the DRDO and built by Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) in India --- are adept at picking up enemy submarines, especially in Indian waters with their distinctive temperature gradient. The destroyer can then engage them with heavy torpedos at ranges out to 100 kilometres, or with an Indigenous Rocket Launcher (IRL) built by Larsen & Toubro.

The Kolkata's predecessor, the Project-15 Delhi-class destroyer, was considered a beautiful warship, its clean lines a purist's delight. The Kolkata's deck has similar lines, but the aesthetics are interrupted by steel plating extending up the sides --- characteristic of a stealth warship. These armour plates, tilted 6-8 degrees to deflect radar waves rather than reflect them straight back to the enemy, make it difficult to detect this warship at a distance.

Interestingly, the Kolkata-class is almost 2,000 tonnes heavier than its predecessor --- the Project 15 Delhi-class destroyers --- because of its heavier armour plating. Despite that, it moves as fast as the Delhi-class, propelled by the same Ukrainian turbines. This, say MDL engineers, indicates how much they have improved its propulsion system.

Source : Broadsword: INS Kolkata, navy's most powerful warship, to be delivered next month

 

[Kaalapani]

Re: Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

Pakis will now go to US papa and beg for zumwalt class destroyer.

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

Re: Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

this is threat to china and not pakistan

 

[trackwhack]

Re: Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

So by the middle of next year we will have 72 Bramhos out at sea on modern vessels 24 on three Shivaliks and 48 on 3 P15A's.

Rajputs with four/eight 1st Gen Bramhos each should be gifted to Vietnam / jointly operated and parked in Cam Rahn Bay for early mobilization Delhi class should come in for a 2 year refit to replace the Switchblade with Bramhos. Right now Rajput class seems more deadly than the Delhi Class.

 

[Pulkit]

Re: Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

I believe US congress had declined any such act ....
Cost cutting I believe . I dont remember the source .... sorry for that

Pakis will now go to US papa and beg for zumwalt class destroyer.

 

[ladder]

Re: Indian Navy most powerful warship to be delivered next month

Interestingly, the Kolkata-class is almost 2,000 tonnes heavier than its predecessor --- the Project 15 Delhi-class destroyers --- because of its heavier armour plating.

Wrong Info.

Even going by the above article.

The author claims P-15 A to be 7200 tonnes, so accordingly to him how much is the displacement of P15 Delhi class?