Military Procurement International Vol. 18, No. 9, May 1, 2008
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INDIA
Four
Project 28 ASW corvettes
Under a contract valued at some Rupees 2.8 billion
crores (US$700.78 million) awarded in 2003, Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), of Kolkata,
expects to hand over the first of four Project 28 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)
corvettes to the Indian Navy in
mid-2009. For some unexplained reason, steel cutting for the lead ship started
only on August 12, 2005. The three subsequent ships will be delivered at
intervals of 15-18 months.
Displacing
2,500t and measuring 110m in length, each corvette will be powered by four
raft-mounted French Pielstick 12 PA6
STC engines, delivering a total of 17,080kW, for a maximum speed of 28-32kts.
Special attention has been given to reducing acoustic, magnetic, Infra-Red and
radar cross-section signatures. Details of the radar, sonar and electronics fit
have not yet been released.
Armament
will include: one licence produced Oto
Melara 76mm Super Rapid gun in a stealth mount; 6-8 vertically launched,
300km-range Novator 3M-54E Klub-N
(SS-N-27 Sizzler) anti-ship missiles; vertically-launched Israeli Rafael Barak Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs); two Larsen
& Toubro RBU-6000 ASW rocket launchers; two triple Larsen & Toubro
ASW torpedo launchers; and one Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd. Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter.
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