INS Satpura : Second P-17 stealth frigate commissioning tomorrow

[Kinetic]

The stealth frigate was to be inaugurated by Defence Minister A.K. Antony but he cancelled his trip to Mumbai at the last minute.

Part work and political messes always get more priority than govt works for our ministers. It certainly causes losses to the ministries.

 

[kingdurgaking]

dock looks like a very old one.. lot of old buildings

 

[Kinetic]

Update: Third stealth frigate INS Sahyadri undergoing sea trials. Will be commissioned next year.

Are they making some OPVs also ? Because it soenot looks big enough to be a frigate but it might be corvette or OPV. Corvettes are build by GRSE.

May be an OPV. MDL not making any OPVs I think, the ship might be undergoing some refits.

 

[Kinetic]

INS Satpuda

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

@Kinetic..welcome back bro...And Thanks for awesome pics.

 

[indiatech]

 

[Hindustani]

Second Indian-built stealth warship launched ​

Mumbai: The Indian Navy added to its strike capabilities yesterday by commissioning its second indigenously designed and built warship, INS Satpura, a multi-role combat stealth frigate.

The state-of-the-art 142.5-metre-long frigate with an array of weapons and sensors was commissioned by naval chief Admiral Nirmal Verma.

The second of the Shivalik class frigates will be among the frontline warships of the Indian Navy that currently has a fleet of 130 vessels, including an aircraft carrier, 20 landing ships, eight destroyers, 12 frigates and 16 attack submarines.

The first vessel of the Shivalik class, INS Shivalik, was commissioned in April last year. The third ship, INS Sahyadri, is likely to be commissioned next year.

The ship has the capability to outsmart the enemy with its low radar cross-section, low heat radiation and diminished noise vibrations. This makes the detection of the ship more difficult and that ultimately gives it more time to react in case of a strike.

Second Indian-built stealth warship launched

 

[Imran Khan]

congs dears look nice .

 

[Kinetic]

INS SATPURA

Photo Ajai Shukla

 

[Imran Khan]

look from back like perry yaar nice pics .

 

[Kinetic]

Stealth warship INS Satpura joins navy


Ajai Shukla
Mumbai, 22nd Aug 11


In a centuries-old naval ritual in Mumbai on Saturday, navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma commissioned into active service Indian Naval Ship (INS) Satpura.

“I wish the crew fair winds and following seas”, Verma intoned, in the traditional naval goodwill message, before raising the Indian flag on the Satpura’s helicopter deck and unveiling the ships plaque. The band struck up the national anthem, the tricolour was raised on the helicopter deck and INS Satpura became the 140th warship of the Indian Navy.

The INS Satpura, which follows the INS Shivalik into service, is the second of three Project 17 stealth frigates that are being built by Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai. It will be followed by INS Sahyadri early next year. These three “state-of-the-art surface combatants” as Verma called them — trace their design ancestry to three Talwar-class frigates that Russia built for the navy a decade ago. However the Shivalik-class, as INS Shivalik, Satpura and Sahyadri are classified (after the first vessel in the series), are significantly heavier than the 4,100-tonne Talwar-class frigates, giving them the capability to absorb, as well as deliver, heavier blows in battle.

Officially termed a guided-missile frigate, the Satpura weighs in at a muscular 6,200 tonnes. Frigates typically weigh 4,500-6,500 tonnes; the next-higher class of warships, called destroyers, begin at about 7,000 tonnes. The Satpura carries 24 Russian Klub missiles, which can hit ground targets more than two hundred kilometres away with pinpoint precision. The Indian Navy would have liked the Satpura to carry the more capable and lethal Brahmos missile, but that is too heavy for the frigate. Only the Indian Navy’s destroyers are currently armed with the Brahmos.

The Satpura is also equipped with the Israeli Barak air defence system, to ward off enemy aircraft and missiles. It has torpedoes to deal with enemy submarines, as well as an RB-6,000 multi-barrelled depth charge launcher. Posted on board the Satpura is a tiny aviation unit, with hangars and facilities for two Sea King, or indigenous Dhruv helicopters.

Driving this 142 metre-long warship through the water are two French Pielstick diesel engines. In addition, there are two General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines. This provides the advantage of fuel-efficient operation in the normal course, using the Pielstick diesels, while the gas turbines take over when bursts of speed are required, especially in battle. This is known as CODOG (combined diesel or gas) configuration.

But the Satpura’s key advantage is stealth. Its design reduces the vessel’s radar, infrared, electronic, acoustic and visual signatures, making it difficult for the enemy to detect it. The design skills needed for building stealth vessels like the Satpura have been honed by Indian shipyards over time, and are reaching their finest in Project 28, a line-up for ultra-stealthy, anti-submarine corvettes that are being built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata. Stealth will also form an important component of the seven Project 17A frigates that will start being built next year as the the navy’s next line of frigates.

Along with satisfaction at the Satpura’s world-class capabilities, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) remains concerned over the high level of imported components in these warships. According to the official navy figures requested by Business Standard, the total cost of Project 17A (i.e. the cost of three Shivalik-class frigates) will be Rs 7,883 crore. Of this, Rs 2,710 crore have been spent on foreign equipment, that includes the on-board weapons, sensors and radars, engines, transmission, etc.

During the commissioning, the naval chief admitted the Satpura’s indigenous component amounted to 60 per cent. Much of that amount, however, goes towards the cost of labour etc. The high-tech equipment remains mainly imported.

Notwithstanding that, the navy justifiably claims credit for indigenising the crucial dimensions of design and integration. Vice Admiral Ganesh Mahadevan, the navy’s Chief of Materials, claims that indigenisation will rise dramatically in the next two lines of warships that are coming on stream next year, i.e. in Project 15B (four destroyers) and Project 1A (seven frigates).

An important driver in lowering the cost of imported equipment is the agreement with Essar Steel for manufacturing warship-grade steel. So far, owing to SAIL’s refusal to engage in the complex manufacture of the specialised metal, which the dockyards require in relatively small and commercially unviable quantities, shipyards were left with no option but to import from Russia. Now, Essar Steel will be manufacturing the few thousands of tonnes of warship grade steel that will be needed for Projects 15B and Project 17A.


Stealth warship INS Satpura joins navy

 

[TOPGUN]

Does look nice congrats guys

 

[Kinetic]

INS Satpura carries 24 Klub?!!! I thought it is 8. It has good stealth capabilities but P-28 coming next year will get high level of stealth capabilities.

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INS Shivalik and INS Satpura are sister ships

 

[Kinetic]

Weapons and sensor config

 

[SpArK]

Weapons and sensor config

But the article above says Brahmos is too heavy to carry for this frigates and only destroyers carry???

Atleast 2-3 would have been nice..