INS Rajput (D51)

	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:	142 m (466 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:; 2 × 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 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.

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

Friedman, Norman (2006). The Naval Institute guide to world naval weapon systems (5th ed.). Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute. p. 243. ISBN 1557502625.
"Dhanush, naval surface-to-surface missile, test fired successfully". domain-b.com. 31 March 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
BRAHMOS NAVAL VERSION TESTED SUCCESSFULLY Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
"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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[nigwn-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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