GSL to Deliver India's Largest Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ICGS Samarth Next Month

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Goa Shipyard readies first improved OPV for delivery to Indian Coast Guard​

The first improved Sankalp-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) on order for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is being readied for delivery by October 2015, Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) said in a statement released on 21 September.

The vessel, which has been named Samarth , is the first of six 105 m, 2,400 tonne OPVs ordered under an INR18 billion (USD273 million) contract signed in May 2012.Samarth was launched on 26 November 2014, then second-in-class Shoor followed on 21 March 2015.

Citing a GSL press release, IHS Jane's reported in May 2012 that the new OPVs would be fitted with a "contemporary" integrated bridge system and fast-response boats for search-and-rescue and counter-piracy operations.

Source:- Goa Shipyard readies first improved OPV for delivery to Indian Coast Guard - IHS Jane's 360

 

[zambino]

Pics please

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

GSL-class Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel
General characteristics​

Displacement: 2,400 long tons (2,439 t)
Length: 105 m (344 ft 6 in)
Beam: 13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Installed power: 2 × 20 PA6B STC engines = 7792 KW
Propulsion: 2 x Controllable Pitch Propeller
Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range: 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance: 20 days
Complement: 18 Officers & 108 Sailors
Armament: 1 × 30 mm (1.2 in) CRN 91 Naval Gun

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With a displacement of over 2,400 tonnes - these OPV's are heavier than Indian Navy's Saryu-class patrol vessels of 2,300 tonnes. India's largest OPV's to be commissioned till date.

 

[Globaltracker81]

GSL-class Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel
General characteristics​

Displacement: 2,400 long tons (2,439 t)
Length: 105 m (344 ft 6 in)
Beam: 13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Installed power: 2 × 20 PA6B STC engines = 7792 KW
Propulsion: 2 x Controllable Pitch Propeller
Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range: 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance: 20 days
Complement: 18 Officers & 108 Sailors
Armament: 1 × 30 mm (1.2 in) CRN 91 Naval Gun

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With a displacement of over 2,400 tonnes - these OPV's are heavier than Indian Navy's Saryu-class patrol vessels of 2,300 tonnes. India's largest OPV's to be commissioned till date.

2300t is equal ant to frigates in some navies. Slowly CGI would be able to handle some of countries navies on its own and saving some time for IN.

 

[silent hawk]

More fishermen would be arrested.

 

[Roman 12]

Lol ICG can take care of many navies in the region.

 

[mkb95]

More fishermen would be arrested.

only if they take our fish.

 

[migflug]

It's size of frigate for many countries.

 

[Didact]

The US Navy has a rather interesting concept in advanced stages of experimental implementation; the Distributed Lethality Concept. What the concept basically suggests is this:

Disperse, disperse, and disperse again. Disperse firepower among surface warships, making every vessel a combatant. The concept is that shipbuilders will spread firepower and reconnaissance assets throughout the surface navy rather than concentrating them in a few top-end combatants such as guided-missile cruisers and destroyers.

if every surface ship—not just cruisers and destroyers but littoral combat ships or even amphibious transports—boasts offensive firepower, manifest in anti-ship and land-attack missiles, then local defenders will confront a dilemma: what to attack? They can take out segments of the fleet without disabling the organism as a whole. Individual ships may die, yet the fleet lives—and may accomplish its goals even in fiercely contested expanses.
(Quotes from warontherocks.com)

In India's case, the concept would amount to strapping on AShM/Land Attack missile modules on every naval/coast guard surface ship that has the space to hold and deploy such a system, an excellent counter to Area denial operations by a hostile navy. Imagine something like a hundred of the Navy's 140 odd Surface ships incorporated into this doctrine; even at 4 AShMs a ship, that's some 400 AShMs/ LAMs available to the NHQs and Fleet command for use. Then there are the large-ish coast guard vessels that too could be outfitted with these conceptual "universal missile modules".

 

[Abingdonboy]

The US Navy has a rather interesting concept in advanced stages of experimental implementation; the Distributed Lethality Concept. What the concept basically suggests is this:

Disperse, disperse, and disperse again. Disperse firepower among surface warships, making every vessel a combatant. The concept is that shipbuilders will spread firepower and reconnaissance assets throughout the surface navy rather than concentrating them in a few top-end combatants such as guided-missile cruisers and destroyers.

if every surface ship—not just cruisers and destroyers but littoral combat ships or even amphibious transports—boasts offensive firepower, manifest in anti-ship and land-attack missiles, then local defenders will confront a dilemma: what to attack? They can take out segments of the fleet without disabling the organism as a whole. Individual ships may die, yet the fleet lives—and may accomplish its goals even in fiercely contested expanses.
(Quotes from warontherocks.com)

In India's case, the concept would amount to strapping on AShM/Land Attack missile modules on every naval/coast guard surface ship that has the space to hold and deploy such a system, an excellent counter to Area denial operations by a hostile navy. Imagine something like a hundred of the Navy's 140 odd Surface ships incorporated into this doctrine; even at 4 AShMs a ship, that's some 400 AShMs/ LAMs available to the NHQs and Fleet command for use. Then there are the large-ish coast guard vessels that too could be outfitted with these conceptual "universal missile modules".

De-link the ICG from the IN, the ICG's role is NOT to be a combatant, they are a maritime law enforcement agency with a secondary role in SAR/disaster relief. As such, there is no rationale behind installing offensive weaponry onboard ICG vessels.

 

[SwAggeR]

How much total tonnage did IN and CG added this year until now ??

Every now and then I see some or other surface platform being commissioned.

Days are not very far when we will be inducting sub surface platforms too at pretty rapid pace.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Indian Coast Guard in numbers -

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[saurav]

Why are we inducting such big OPVs ? These ships may very well replace some light frigates in tonnage. In my uninformed opinion, ICG should concentrate on numbers.

 

[Roman 12]

De-link the ICG from the IN, the ICG's role is NOT to be a combatant, they are a maritime law enforcement agency with a secondary role in SAR/disaster relief. As such, there is no rationale behind installing offensive weaponry onboard ICG vessels.

Nope you are wrong IN learnt from op trident and op python that every vessel counts.
And it is a good doctrine.
If you are informed the let me tell you that ICG will get new OPV equiped with bramhos Ashm which is said to be an offensive weapon apart from other systems of OPV.
As I say
Let it rain
Let it rain
No stoppin no hidin
Just let it rain.

 

[migflug]

We should arm every small ships like opv rather than depending entirely on destroyer and frigates . quantity has its own quality. These small ships can take care of entire pn without involving destroyer or frigates. Leave them for pla. Two front war is not only for air force, its for navy too