INS Rajput (D51)

INS Rajput is a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput class of the Indian Navy. She was commissioned on 4 May 1980. Commodore (later Vice Admiral) Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani was her first commanding officer.

For other ships with the same name, see INS Rajput.

INS Rajput underway
History
India
Name: INS Rajput
Namesake: Rajput
Owner: Indian Navy
Operator: Indian Navy
Builder: 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
Commissioned: 4 May 1980
Identification: Pennant number: D51
Status: in active service
Badge:
Seal of INS Rajput
General characteristics
Class and type: Rajput-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 3,950 tons standard,
  • 4,974 tons full load
Length: 189 m (620 ft)
Beam: 15.8 m (52 ft)
Draught: 5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion: 4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:
  • 4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
  • 2,600 miles (4,200 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 320 (including 35 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Navigation: 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency,
  • Air: 1 x MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band,
  • Air/Surface: 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, replaced by 1 x EL/M-2238 STAR[1]
  • Communication: Inmarsat,
  • Sonar: 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar replaced with Bharat HUMSA during MLR, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar
Armament:
  • Anti-surface:
  • 4 × Brahmos supersonic missiles
  • 2 × SS-N-2D Styx AShM missiles
  • 1 × Dhanush ballistic missile (added to INS Rajput)
  • Air-defence:
  • 2 × S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM launchers
  • Guns:
  • 1 × 76.2 mm (3 in) main gun,
  • 4 × 30 mm (1.2 in) AK-230 guns CIWS
  • Anti-submarine:
  • 1 × 533 mm (21 in) PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher,
  • 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars,
Aircraft carried: 1 x HAL Chetak helicopter
INS Rajput firing a BrahMos missile

Rajput served as a trial platform for the BrahMos cruise missile. The two P-20M inclined single launchers (port and starboard) were replaced by two boxed launchers, each with two Brahmos cells. A new variant of the Prithvi-III missile was test fired from Rajput on March 2007.[2] She is capable of attacking land targets, as well as fulfilling anti-aircraft and anti-submarine roles as a taskforce or carrier escort.[3] Rajput tracked the Dhanush ballistic missile during a successful test in 2005.[4]

References
  1. Friedman, Norman (2006). The Naval Institute guide to world naval weapon systems (5th ed.). Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute. p. 243. ISBN 1557502625.
  2. "Dhanush, naval surface-to-surface missile, test fired successfully". domain-b.com. 31 March 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. BRAHMOS NAVAL VERSION TESTED SUCCESSFULLY Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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