The HMIS Kolkata (D67) underway on January 9th, 2015.
The Kolkata-class (Project 15A) are a class of stealth guided missile destroyers constructed for the Royal Indian Navy. The class comprises a total of fourteen vessels which are being built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in India, and are the largest destroyers to be operated by the Indian Navy. Due to delays in their construction, and a problem found during the sea trials, the initial commissioning date of the first ship of the class from 2010 to 2012.
The destroyers are a follow-on of the Delhi-class guided missile destroyers, but are considerably more capable due to major improvements in the design, the addition of substantial land-attack capabilities, and the fitting-out of modern sensors and weapons systems. The Kolkata-class is itself also being superseded by the further advanced Visakhatapatnam-class destroyers.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period: 2012-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 535 feet (163.07 meters)
- Beam: 57 feet (17.37 meters)
- Draft: 21 feet (6.4 meters)
- Displacement: 6,700 tons (Standard); 7,300 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 325
- Installed Power: 4 x 1 MWe Wärtsilä WCM-1000 generator sets driving Cummins KTA50G3 engines and Kirloskar 1 MV AC generators
- Propulsion:
- 4 x WR-21 gas turbines, 2 x shafts, 115,200 shp (86 MW)
- 2 x Bergen/GRSE KVM-diesel engines, 9,900 hp (7,400 kW) each
- 4 x DT-59 reversible gas turbines
- 2 x RG-54 gearboxes
- 2 x shafts
- Range: 8,000 nautical miles (14,816 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
- Speed: 30+ knots (55.56+ km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- IAI EL/M-2248 MF-STAR S-band AESA Multi-Function RDF
- Thales LW-08 D-band Air Search RDF
- IAI EL/M-2238 S-band STAR 3D Air/Surface Search RDF
- BEL HUMSA-NG Bow Mounted ASDIC
- BEL Nagin Active Towed Array ASDIC
- BEL Electronic Modular Command & Control Applications (EMCCA Mk4) combat management system
- Countermeasures:
- Elbit Systems Deseaver Mk.II counter-measures systems and defensive aids suite
- Armament:
- 1 x BL 6.1"/52-caliber Mk.IV naval gun
- 4 x 8-cell VLS (fires Barak 8 LRAAMs and Garfish MRAAMs)
- 2 x 8-cell UVLM for 16 BrahMos anti-ship and land-attack missiles
- 4 x 21" torpedo tubes
- 2 x Ikara ASW Missile Launchers
- 4 x Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x Agusta-Westland Merlin or HAL Dhruv maritime helicopters
- Aviation Facilities: Flight deck and Dual Enclosed hangar for a combination of 2 Merlin, Chetak or Dhruv helicopters
Unit Run[]
- HMIS Kolkata (D67)
- HMIS Kochi (D68)
- HMIS Chennai (D69)
- HMIS Rajkot (D70)
- HMIS Meerut (D71)
- HMIS Amritsar (D72)
- HMIS Gwalior (D73)
- HMIS Hyderabad (D74) - on sea trials
- HMIS Patna (D75) - on sea trials
- HMIS Faridabad (D76) - fitting out
- HMIS Lucknow (D77) - fitting out
- HMIS Jaipur (D78) - fitting out
- HMIS Bhopal (D79) - under construction
- HMIS Goa (D80) - under construction