Construction of India’s first indigenous warship underway

Taking first strides towards complete indigenisation of India’s defence armoury, the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Kolkata have begun building country’s first completely indigenous warship.

“On August 12 Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt cut the steel, thus paving way for the construction of the country’s first indigenously built anti-submarine warship with stealth technology,” GRSE Chairman and Managing Director Rear Admiral (retd) TS Ganeshan said.

“It is a 25,000 tonne corvette armed with stealth-mounted guns, the latest electronic warfare suite which, together with other key operational equipment, is shielded using stealth technology incorporated into the design of the bulwarks,” Admiral Ganeshan said.

Other signature management control features are built in to combat the ship’s infrared, radar-cross signature, noise and magnetic outputs. Electricity is supplied via four diesel generators; two independent interconnected switchboards optimise redundancy and reliability.

“The structure of the ship would be such that it would cut down noise drastically to prevent it from getting detected by enemy submarines. But it will be able to detect an enemy submarine from a distance and destroy it,” he said.

The cost has not yet been ascertained but GRSE aims to deliver the corvette to Navy by first half of 2009. It is also expecting more orders from the Navy, “which would materialise in a month’s time”, he said.

GRSE is executing orders valuing Rs 5000 crore. Last week, it presented a dividend of 40 per cent to the Defence Minister, he said.

Now the foreign navies are approaching the yard with their orders. Enquiries for frigates and Fast Attack Craft are coming from Sri Lanka, ASEAN members and few African countries.

“We are analysing their queries regarding how to meet the orders. We want to work on it. After completing our analysis, we have to bid for it in the global market and get the order,” Ganeshan said.

According to Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard Rear Admiral BK Kaul, this is the first step towards the Navy’s goal of attaining complete indigenisation within next 15 years.

“Successful completion of this project will end our dependency on the foreign suppliers, ease burden on the exchequer as it can save millions of rupees and make our industry globally competitive,” Admiral Kaul said.

“Already 75 per cent of the equipment fitted in the newly acquired ships are indigenously built,” he added.

there is type its 2500 tons not 25000 tons, anyway nice to see some opensource info on it after the force debacle. Not suprised it is 2500 tons similar to what i predicted 5 months back based on tender for grse.

are you asking if its technically or politically feasible for oscar-ii to be convereted?
to answer the first probably if you have few hundred million to throw at a project it is feasbile but russia cant really afford to do that.
As for second one currently russian navy seems to be focused on procuring more surface combatants to make up for the ones being retired and maintaing its tactical strike capability i dont believe improving its land attack capability is a main priority right know.

it is part of russian mineral-me i already posted a image of what radar actually looks like and it was exactly similar to the image of 052c’s radar before the dome was installed.

It is already fitted with two radars. The land based Tunguska has already been offered with a box type array radar and multiple target engagement capability. Compared to the radars fitted to the Kashtan, the radar fitted to the Kristantema is very small.

Fyi, for the Kashtan two radars one is a tracking radar the other is used for missile guidance.
As for palma it seems more or less dead especially because of Kashtan-EO and also upgrade kit for ak-630 is also being promoted. And besides most of palma’s advanced features such as improved 30 mm were incoporated into Kashtan-M.

Make more sense to be 300 miles. But MTCR pressed BAPL to say it is 300 km. Thanks Harry to make it clear with reliable info.

MTCR had little to do with its AsuW range being stated as 300 km that is its AsuW range, even earliar articles on yakhont/onyk all clearly stated that its range is around 280 km. What is at question is land attack range which being its secondary role will never be released for obvious reasons as is the case with other AshM similar to it.

extra 700km? and where would they get a such a massive hike from?

depends mainly on the flight path and speed i doubt its true range will ever be released.

ASMP is a tactical weapon, as for US it has a few supersonic missiles under devolopment jsscm,hyfly etc.

They make it sound like the US is incapable of fielding a supersonic missile when the reality is it was a concious decision. Compare it to the Tomahawk mentioned in the article. How big of a warhead does a Brahmos carry for how far and how large is the missile? Can it carry a one thousand pound warhead over 600 miles and can you carry up to 122 of them on a cruiser or 20 of them in a bomber? Different goals. The US had a kerosene fueled ramjet powered missile operational nearly half a century ago in the Talos (used today as the Vandal target drone). In fact, change the wing shape a bit and what does it look like?

Comparison with tomahawk is not a very knowledge one by the article since they are in two different class but not suprising considering it is news article, former is purely for land attack purpose were as latter is ashm with secondary land attack capability similar in a sense to NSM, Exocet blk 3.
As for yakhont’s engine it is quite simple and similar design is used by few other russian missiles, if it works dont try to fix it. As for talos looking like brahmos only thing it has in common is the nose everything is different including the solid booster.

proquest article does not mean that is credible.
use ur head.
how can Pak started construction of 3rd submarine before it even receive the first one from France? First u have to built infrastructure for submarine building than Train crews for that on first and second submarine than u can start ur own 3rdsubmarine.. but i dont think this simple logic can be put ur head. just like ur banging on F-22P armament from unofficial sources when later BABUR was shown.

lmao proquest not credible , as i said if you dont think that credible look jane’s fighting ships i am pretty sure it says 1997 there as well. Anyway what has f-22p have to do with this and besides that info was from kanwa if i recall correctly which you guys say is credible when it comes to any other info. Anyway i am pretty sure you are posting just to start flame war. If you have any evidence to back your claim post it, otherwise dont come with BS statements and waste my time along with others.

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