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FIRST PHOTOS: Satpura, 2nd P17 Stealth Frigate Enters Service August


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Satpura, India's second Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011.


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Good job by IN and MDL, but we need to speed up the construction of these frigates.

8-9 years for 3 frigates to come online is a bit too long IMO.

INS Sahyadri is slated to be inducted early next year....
 
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OLD PHOTOS: Shivalik On Her Commissioning Day

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INS Satpura to be commissioned on 20th August 2011

The Defence Ministry announcement of INS Satpura's commissioning is pasted below for your information.



INS Satpura: Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011 by the Raksha Mantri at Mumbai. Some leading particulars are as below:

The Defence Ministry announcement of INS Satpura's commissioning is pasted below for your information.



INS Satpura: Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011 by the Raksha Mantri at Mumbai. Some leading particulars are as below:-

Guided-missile frigate
Displacement: 6200 tons
Length: 142.5 metres (468 ft)
Beam: 16.9 metres (55 ft)
Propulsion: 2 x Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines & 2 x GE LM2500+ boost turbines in CODOG configuration
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h), 22 knots (41 km/h) (with Diesel Engines)
Complement: 257 (35 officers)

Sensors and processing systems:

1 x MR-760 Fregat M2EM 3-D radar
4 x MR-90 Orekh radar1 x EL/M 2238 STAR2 x EL/M 2221 STGR1 x BEL APARNAHUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array)ATAS/Thales Sintra towed array systems
Electronic warfare and decoys: BEL Ajanta electronic warfare suite

Armament:

OTO Melara 76mm SRGM
2 x AK-630 30mm guns32 x Barak SAM9M317 (SA-N-12) SAM, total of 24 missiles8 x Klub cruise Missiles90R missiles (ASW)DTA-53-956 torpedoesKlub AS Missile2x RBU-6000 (RPK-8)Aircraft carried: 2 x HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk.

Broadsword: INS Satpura to be commissioned on 20th August 2011
 
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FIRST PHOTOS: Satpura, 2nd P17 Stealth Frigate Enters Service August


Satpura, India's second Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011.


Livefist: FIRST PHOTOS: Satpura, 2nd P17 Stealth Frigate Enters Service August

Cool. Another stealth frigate for IN. But it needs a paintjob before induction.
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Great news. IN management is really excellent. Admiral Verma is taking that extra step to retain its reputation as a leading indigenizer in the entire tri-services. IAF is right now the slowest and the most listless despite being headed by a very very smart air chief.
 
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INS Satpura to be commissioned on 20th August 2011

The Defence Ministry announcement of INS Satpura's commissioning is pasted below for your information.



INS Satpura: Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011 by the Raksha Mantri at Mumbai. Some leading particulars are as below:

The Defence Ministry announcement of INS Satpura's commissioning is pasted below for your information.



INS Satpura: Second Shivalik class Indigenous Stealth Frigate. Conceived and designed by the Indian Naval Design team to be the mainstay frigates of Indian Navy for the first half of 21 century. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned on 20 Aug 2011 by the Raksha Mantri at Mumbai. Some leading particulars are as below:-

Guided-missile frigate
Displacement: 6200 tons
Length: 142.5 metres (468 ft)
Beam: 16.9 metres (55 ft)
Propulsion: 2 x Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines & 2 x GE LM2500+ boost turbines in CODOG configuration
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h), 22 knots (41 km/h) (with Diesel Engines)
Complement: 257 (35 officers)

Sensors and processing systems:

1 x MR-760 Fregat M2EM 3-D radar
4 x MR-90 Orekh radar1 x EL/M 2238 STAR2 x EL/M 2221 STGR1 x BEL APARNAHUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array)ATAS/Thales Sintra towed array systems
Electronic warfare and decoys: BEL Ajanta electronic warfare suite

Armament:

OTO Melara 76mm SRGM
2 x AK-630 30mm guns32 x Barak SAM9M317 (SA-N-12) SAM, total of 24 missiles8 x Klub cruise Missiles90R missiles (ASW)DTA-53-956 torpedoesKlub AS Missile2x RBU-6000 (RPK-8)Aircraft carried: 2 x HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk.

Broadsword: INS Satpura to be commissioned on 20th August 2011
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Referring to a bolded part. I really don't understand this term called " Stealth Frigate ". How come such a huge Ship floating on water become a " Stealth Frigate" and what makes such huge Frigate become Stealth? I am not a military professional but can any guru shed some light on it .. Ahhh!! I really miss Mr Penguin.

Regards
Jailer
 
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Referring to a bolded part. I really don't understand this term called " Stealth Frigate ". How come such a huge Ship floating on water become a " Stealth Frigate" and what makes such huge Frigate become Stealth? I am not a military professional but can any guru shed some light on it .. Ahhh!! I really miss Mr Penguin.

Regards
Jailer

If a ship of this size is designed and constructed in such a fashion (wrt both materials and shape) that its signature is reduced substantially and it "looks" smaller/ different on an enemy radar/ acoustic/ thermal or other sensors; it would qualify as a stealth design. Shivalik class ships show up as ships of ~ 1/2 to 1/4 the original displacement. An enemy aircraft at a distance of X kms may think it is a corvette and not a frigate based on the signature described! However the main advantage is late detection as over a period of time, the enemy threat libraries get updated to detect new signatures. However lower signatures allow these ships to stay undetected for longer periods in any specific threat environment or get closer to targets while remaining undetected.
 
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Referring to a bolded part. I really don't understand this term called " Stealth Frigate ". How come such a huge Ship floating on water become a " Stealth Frigate" and what makes such huge Frigate become Stealth? I am not a military professional but can any guru shed some light on it .. Ahhh!! I really miss Mr Penguin.

Regards
Jailer

its not that if a plane or ship is described as Stealth means its invisible. It indiactas that the signature is grately reduced and to detect it you need to come closer.
In general a ASW platform will detect a ship from about 450km. But for a stealth ship this range is greatly reduced to say 200km. This will give the stealth platform to have a first shot to launch its missiles.
 
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