The Royal Indian Navy destroyer HMIS Mysore (D60) encounters the American destroyer APNS Shiloh (DDG-67) in the Indian Ocean on April 9th, 2007.
The Delhi-class destroyers are guided-missile destroyers of the Royal Indian Navy. Eight ships of this class are in active service.
The Delhi-class vessels are the fourth-largest warships to be fully designed and built in India, after the Kolkata and Visakhapatnam-class destroyers and the Shivalik-class frigates. They were built at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period: 1997-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 535 feet (163.07 meters)
- Beam: 57 feet (17.37 meters)
- Draft: 21 feet (6.4 meters)
- Displacement: 6,200 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 360 (40 officers and 320 enlisted)
- Propulsion: 4 x Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines, 4 × DT-59 reversible gas turbines, 2 × RG-54 gearboxes, 2 x shafts, 115,200 shp (86 MW)
- Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
- Speed: 32 knots (59.26 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- SAMPSON Multifunction AESA RDF
- S1850M 3D Long Range Air Search RDF
- Bharat RAWL Surface Search RDF
- STN Atlas 9600-M ARPA Navigation RDF
- Type 911 Fire Control RDF
- Bharat APSOH or HUMSA ASDIC
- Garden Reach Model 15-750 Variable Depth ASDIC
- Countermeasures:
- BEL Ajanta RDF Interceptor
- Elettronica TQN-2 jamming system
- Chaff launchers x 4
- Armament:
- 1 x QF 4.5"/55-caliber Mk.8B naval gun
- 4 x 8-cell VLS (fires Barak 1 AAMs)
- 4 x 4-cannister SSM Launchers (fires Broadsword AShMs)
- 2 x Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x Agusta-Westland Merlin ASW helicopters
- Aviation Facilities:
Unit Run[]
- HMIS Delhi (D59)
- HMIS Mysore (D60)
- HMIS Mumbai (D61)
- HMIS Karachi (D62)
- HMIS Islamabad (D63)
- HMIS Bangalore (D64)
- HMIS Jalandhar (D65)
- HMIS Murshidabad (D66)