First Project-28 ASW Corvette Launch Today

[ironman]

 

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Project 28 ASW Corvette

Project 28 ASW Corvette

The Indian Navy modernization program includes a new antisubmarine warfare corvette. By late December 2003, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers was developing a new corvette design that will follow the Kora-class, of which the fourth and final unit (Karmukh) was commissioned in 2004. The new corvette will displace about 2,400 tons full loaded, in the size-class of a modern frigate. With the design currently under development, plate-cutting started on the first unit in 2005 and up to eight units of the class could eventually be built.

The 2nd International Naval & Defence Show (IMDS-2005) held in St Petersburg provided new information on the Project 28 (P-28) ASW corvette to be designed and built by GSRE. The Russian Severnoye Design Bureau confirmed that the P-28 will be derived from from the Russian Project 20382 design. The platform was to be Russian, and most major systems will be Indian. But Contrary to earlier reports, this vessel is not an adaptation of the Russian Project 2038.0 (Steregushchy Class) design. Rather, the Indian Navy provided the basic design with a detail design by GRSE.

According to one account, the P-28 will displace 1,800 tons light, with dimensions of 94 m length, 13m beam, and 3.5 m draft. The CODAG propulsion system, comprising twin gas turbines, twin diesel engines and twin diesel generators will drive two-shaft, controllable-pitch propellers. The corvette will have a maximum speed of 27 Knots, range of 4,000nm, endurance of 15 days and a crew compliment of 85. The helicopter deck will be able to house either the dipping sonar-equipped Ka-28PL or Naval HAL Dhruv.

Armament details are not entirely clear, though it seems to include an OTOBreda 76/62 main gun, twin 12-barrelled RBU-6000 ASW mortar launchers, twin ILAS triple-tube torpedo launchers for launching Franco-Italian MU-90 lightweight torpedoes, and one 16-cell Israeli Barak-1 VLS anti-missile defence system.

By one account they will include an eight-cell vertical launched Klub-N 220km-range supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, and another account mentions Two AK-630M CIWS (Close In Weapon System). Russia's AK630, with associated MR-123 ('Bass Tilt') radar, is a compact mounting weighing only 3.7 tonnes (loaded) and the Gatling-principle 30 mm gun of 5000 rounds/min and a range of up to 2.5 nm (five km). Yet another report from 2007 claims that the Novator 3K54TE Granat (SS-N-21 'Sampson') had been selected for India's latest Project 28 corvettes. This sub-sonic weapon is part of the Club family and is unusual in being vertically launched as well as weighing a whopping 3665 kg, yet its range is only 120 nm (220 km). This weapon uses inertial navigation and active radar homing Active radar homing is a missile guidance method in which a guided missile contains a radar transceiver and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously. NATO brevity code for an active radar homing missile launch is Fox Three.

The Barak Weapon System seems to be the favored missile, over the Shtil, in newer IN ships. The missile features command-to-line-of-sight guidance with Elta EL/M-2221GM weapon control radars and is housed in vertical cell clusters which may be inserted in the hull or superstructure or distributed around the deck. The missile has a range of 6.5 nm (twelve km) and, like many, it can be used not only against manned or unmanned aircraft but also to help shield against anti-ship missiles.

The 76-mm gun offers the optimum between low mass and high effect with the twelve-kg rounds being useful not only in the ASuW role but also in the Naval Gun Fire Support (NGFS) role at ranges up to 10.75 nm (20 km) while the high rate-of-fire (85 rounds/min) provides a degree of AAW capability. Corvette customers increasingly select the Super Rapid version of the mounting with improved feed and hoist systems, which permit 120 rounds/min.

Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei (Wass) and DCNS have combined its efforts to produce the MU-90 Impact torpedo to be used in India's Project 28s and possibly by Poland's Gawrons. This has a maximum range of 7.25 nm (13.5 km) with a maximum speed of up to 50 knots and a more advanced guidance system than the A 244/S which will probably be used by India's Project 28. This weapon is licence-produced by Bharat Electronics in India.

The EMDINA combat management system (CMS) was originally co-designed by the Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic Systems Engineering Establishment (WESEE) and TATA Power as part of project MEDINA. This centralised CMS architecture has been adopted for the Navy's three Project 17 guided-missile frigates (FFG), three Project 15A guided-missile destroyers (DDG), and the four Project 28 ASW guided-missile corvettes.

Displacing around 2500 tons and with a length of around 110 meters, this vessel is a corvette in name only - it is actually closer to a small frigate.

Garden Reach Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd (GRSE) showcased a representative scale model of the Project 28 ASW corvette at the 11th Defence Services Asia exhibition (DSA 2008) held in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur from April 21 to 24 2008. The frigate’s main mast carried the 2.5-tonne Revati radar, an EL/M-2221 STGR fire-control radar illuminator for the Barak-1, as well as a BEL-built Shikari (THALES’ Flycatcher) fire-director of the main gun. The first four planned Project 28 ASW corvettes, each costing Rs7 billion, will also have on board the ELBIT Systems-built Deseaver decoy dispensers onboard.
Project 28A

Under the Maritime Capabilities Perspective Plan 2022’s indigenous construction component, the Navy will acquire two Cadet Training Ships, five more offshore patrol vessels (OPV) to add to the four already ordered from Goa Shipyard Ltd, three LPDs, seven Project 17A FFGs, six SSKs under Project 75(I), eight guided-missile corvettes under Project 28A (to add to the four Project 28 ASW vessels now being built by Garden Reach Shipbuilding & Engineering), eight GRP-hulled MCMVs, and another integrated aircraft carrier.

Ships
Name Number Port Builder Laid Down Comm Decomm
Project 28
Yard 3017 GRSE 20 Nov 2006 2010
Yard 3018 GRSE 27 Sep 2007 2011
Yard 3019 GRSE ? 2008 2012
Yard 3020 GRSE ? 2009 2013
Project 28A
GRSE ? 2010 ? 2014
GRSE ? 2011 ? 2015
GRSE ? 2012 ? 2016
GRSE ? 2013 ? 2017
GRSE ? 2014 ? 2018
GRSE ? 2015 ? 2019
GRSE ? 2016 ? 2020

Specifications
Displacement 1,800 tons - light
2500 tons - standard displacement
Length 94 meters / 109.1 meters
Beam 13 meters / 13.7 meters
Draft 3.5 meters
Molded Depth 8.5 meters
Propulsion initial design

# CODAG propulsion system twin gas turbines
# twin diesel engines
# twin diesel generators
# two-shaft, controllable-pitch propellers

OR - later design

four Pielstick 12 PA6 STC engines, each rated at 4270 Kw.
Range 4,000 nm
Endurance 15 days
Speed 25-27 Knots,
later design = 28-32 knots
# Armament One OTOBreda Melara 76mm Super Rapid Gun Mount (SRGM)
# one 16-cell Barak SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) launcher
# Two 12-barrel RBU-6000 ASW mortar launchers
# twin ILAS triple-tube torpedo launchers
# Franco-Italian MU-90 533mm lightweight torpedoes

initial design included
# eight-cell VLS Klub-N 220km-range supersonic ASCM
# Two AK-630M CIWS (Close In Weapon System)
Aircraft Ka-28PL or Naval HAL Dhruv
Crew 85

 

[ironman]

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

ship under construction images

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

3D IMAGE

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

SORRY FOR THE OFF TOPIC POST

the best looking corvette man what a beauty

 

[jha]

which corvette is this ..?

 

[Kinetic]

Good days for Indian Navy (except the commodore-natasha scandal lol). They are doing best among the forces with lots of Indian stuffs. P-28 will be one hell submarine killer. It will also incorporate advanced stealth features. Except some weapons the ship will be completely Indian. GRSE is much faster than MDL.

SORRY FOR THE OFF TOPIC POST

the best looking corvette man what a beauty

What it has to do with P-28 launching?

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

which corvette is this ..?

Visby class corvette. Visby is the latest class of corvette to be adopted by the Swedish Navy

 

[Kinetic]

which corvette is this ..?

visby from sweden

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

Good days for Indian Navy (except the commodore-natasha scandal lol). They are doing best among the forces with lots of Indian stuffs. P-28 will be one hell submarine killer. It will also incorporate advanced stealth features. GRSE is much faster than MDL.



What it has to do with P-28 launching?

thats why i said off topic post buddy

 

[nakodo]

Not entirely OT

Indian stealth warships to get deadlier: Rediff.com India News

The Indian Navy's prestigious Project 28, the programme to build four of the world's stealthiest anti-submarine corvettes, is on track to become even more cutting edge. By the end of this month, three international shipbuilders will be bidding to provide Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers with the technology to build a major part of the corvettes -- the entire superstructure -- with lightweight composites.

By making the superstructure, which is the upper part of the ship that rests on the hull, of lighter composite material, the 2,500-tonne warships will become lighter, stealthier and far more stable in the water. Already acclaimed as world-class warships, composite superstructures will make them amongst the most effective submarine hunters in any of the world's navies.

Business Standard has learned that the ministry of defence will shortly issue tenders to three shipbuilders with extensive experience in fabricating composites. Kockums of Sweden, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, which builds the world's stealthiest warships, the 650-tonne Visby class corvettes, is a leading contender; also in the fray are Greek shipbuilder, Intermarine; and Korea's Kangnam Corporation.

With composite materials increasingly crucial to warships, this lucrative tender could open the door for broader partnership with Indian defence shipyards.

The three companies are maintaining a discrete silence for now, but an aide to the spokesperson of TKMS admitted, "India [ Images ] is an interesting market for TKMS at the moment because of the serious attention that the government of India is giving to the technical future of the Indian Navy."

The first two corvettes of Project 28, which are nearing completion, have already been built with conventional steel superstructures. Subsequent corvettes, that is the third ship onwards, can have composite superstructures. The chairman and managing director of GRSE, Rear Admiral KC Sekhar, told Business Standard during a visit to GRSE in August that, "Composite materials technology can only be incorporated for the third and fourth ships of Project 28. The first corvette is already 90 per cent completed. Eighty per cent of the superstructure is ready for the second corvette."

All the high technology going into Project 28 is boosting costs; GRSE and the defence ministry are locked in negotiations to finalise a price for the corvettes. Since 2003, when the order was placed, GRSE has worked on Project 28 based on nothing more than a Letter of Intent from the ministry. The cost mentioned in that LoI was derived from the cost of the earlier Project 25A, for previous generation Kora class corvettes.

But now, that cost has ballooned, partly because of repeated changes that the Navy has demanded in order to keep Project 28 at the cutting edge of stealth technology. The LoI's Rs 2,800 crore for the four ships of Project 28 (Rs 700 crore per corvette), has swelled to Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 1,750 crore per corvette). And, since the cost of the first ship of Project 28 was to determine the real cost of Project 28, the defence ministry has little option but to pay that amount.

But Business Standard has learned that the MoD-GRSE negotiations could soon have a happy ending.

Although the order was placed in 2003, the ministry is likely to agree to a "commencement of production" date of March 2006, to compensate for the delays caused by repeated changes in specifications.

Since the first Project 28 corvette is likely to roll out in 2012, that will amount to a notional build period of 6 years, in line with the time that most foreign shipyards take to produce the first ship of a class. Subsequent ships, however, are expected to be churned out much faster.

 

[Prometheus]

good news.........keep it going

 

[KS]

hmmmm
Visby ----> 650 tons
P-28 ----> 2400 tons

still both are corvettes,,??

 

[nakodo]

hmmmm
Visby ----> 650 tons
P-28 ----> 2400 tons

still both are corvettes,,??

Countries like Sweden that border smaller seas, such as the Baltic Sea or the Persian Gulf, are more likely to build the smaller and more maneuverable corvettes.