That's an AK-276 naval gun. "2" meaning it's twin barreled with "76" being the caliber. These guns are also known as the AK-726.
A small battle group of the IN's Western Naval Command (WNC). WNC has many such battle groups.
The 4 ships are (left to right): INS Mumbai (D62), INS Talwar (F40), INS Gomati (F20) & INS Delhi (D61).
Combined they carry :
2 x 100mm AK-100 naval gun
1 x 100mm AK-190E naval gun
1 x twin barrel 57mm AK-257 naval gun
12 x AK-630 CIWS
1 x Kashtan CIWS
5 x RBU-6000 rocket launcher
4 x P-15 Termit AShM/LACM
32 x Kh-35E AShM/LACM
8 x Klub AShM/LACM
8 x Igla-1E
40 x Barak-1 point defence missile
72 x Shtil-1 medium range AD missile
12 x 533mm torpedo launch tubes (unknown number of Type 53-65 or TEST 71-76 or Varunastra or the upcoming EHWT torpedoes)
6 x 324mm torpedo launch tubes (unknown number of TAL Shyena or ALWT or Whitehead A 244S or the upcoming Jalastra torpedoes)
7 x Sea King Mk 42B or HAL Dhruv or HAL Chetak or Ka-28 or Ka-31 helicopters
Pretty impressive weapon load especially given all of the ships here are quite old. @Ashwin @randomradio @Sathya @Parthu @Ankit Kumar @Chain Smoker @vargr et al.
The 4 ships are (left to right): INS Mumbai (D62), INS Talwar (F40), INS Gomati (F20) & INS Delhi (D61).
Combined they carry :
2 x 100mm AK-100 naval gun
1 x 100mm AK-190E naval gun
1 x twin barrel 57mm AK-257 naval gun
12 x AK-630 CIWS
1 x Kashtan CIWS
5 x RBU-6000 rocket launcher
4 x P-15 Termit AShM/LACM
32 x Kh-35E AShM/LACM
8 x Klub AShM/LACM
8 x Igla-1E
40 x Barak-1 point defence missile
72 x Shtil-1 medium range AD missile
12 x 533mm torpedo launch tubes (unknown number of Type 53-65 or TEST 71-76 or Varunastra or the upcoming EHWT torpedoes)
6 x 324mm torpedo launch tubes (unknown number of TAL Shyena or ALWT or Whitehead A 244S or the upcoming Jalastra torpedoes)
7 x Sea King Mk 42B or HAL Dhruv or HAL Chetak or Ka-28 or Ka-31 helicopters
Pretty impressive weapon load especially given all of the ships here are quite old. @Ashwin @randomradio @Sathya @Parthu @Ankit Kumar @Chain Smoker @vargr et al.
Man, Gomati, actually F21, needs to be retired. I don't know how long they are gonna flog her.
And with this configuration, all 4 will get sunk together. It makes for a nice photo, but shows off the grim reality of old ships.
At least until INS Nilgiri arrives.
Their area of deployment is South Western part of the Indian Ocean, Madagascar to South Africa. What exact will sink these ships ?
There's nothing threatening them now. Pointing it out in general.
We go by a three tier system, advanced, current and obsolete. Currently, our advanced ships are only the three Kolkatas. The rest can be sunk using supersonic CMs, 'cause they all lack the hard-kill ability with their old Shtils and Barak 1s. Only once the new Bs and As are in can we call ourselves a viable navy when facing off the PLAN, along with the new Talwars and MLU'd Talwars and Delhis, when we will climb up from 3 viable ships to 22 by 2025.
Gomati will go out early next year imo.
The 3 Delhi class will likely be transferred to Eastern Naval Command to replace the Rajput Class. Good replacement if talking in terms of Rajputs.
The 3 Delhi class will likely be transferred to Eastern Naval Command to replace the Rajput Class. Good replacement if talking in terms of Rajputs.
Talking about TCs. The one for Navy seems most easy to create.
Creation of a marine force, and weather it should remain with Army, or Navy or a seperate arm, that would be interesting.
I actually hope they create a new service, since we need a large marine corps in the future. But we can't afford to do that anytime soon.
So I realize they're being replaced by newer, more effective weapons, but what modifications were made to Indian P-15's to make them more survivable? The Termit was notoriously easy to fool with ECM. A launching ship or shore battery would often have to provide electronic support to a P-15 so it could breakthrough jamming countermeasures, though in practice most P-15s used on combat were successfully destroyed by defending forces.
For those of you who've never see one in person, imagine launching a truck at an enemy ship. That's how massive the P-15 is.
So I realize they're being replaced by newer, more effective weapons, but what modifications were made to Indian P-15's to make them more survivable? The Termit was notoriously easy to fool with ECM. A launching ship or shore battery would often have to provide electronic support to a P-15 so it could breakthrough jamming countermeasures, though in practice most P-15s used on combat were successfully destroyed by defending forces.
For those of you who've never see one in person, imagine launching a truck at an enemy ship. That's how massive the P-15 is.
The old P-15s were relegated to training as aerial targets since the mid 80s, also sinking stuff we didn't need anymore. We kept them around until 2006 I believe.
The modernised P-15, in the form of P-21 and 22, we use today comes with modernised active and IR seekers. The radar seeker is solid state with HoJ features. There's too much secrecy surrounding both seekers though.
None whatsoever. The P-15s were imported from Soviet Union at a time when we did not have the technical competency to make much, if any, modifications to it. I don't recall ever hearing of an Indian project to upgrade the P-15s.
They were initially replaced by the Kh-35E. Then eventually the Brahmos & Club missiles replaced the P-15s completely from ship bourne services.
The P-15s were retained for coastal defence applications:
Even there the Brahmos is replacing them:
The Kh-35E is also going to be replaced in phases in a similar manner like the P-15s.
The IN used it successfully against the Pakistan in 1971.
Operation Trident (1971) - Wikipedia
Operation Python - Wikipedia
In fact, this was the first successful upgrade navy did in-house. Its called P-20/21. All older P-15s were retired long back.
I thought it was a submersible being taken out for repairs.
wonder what could go wrong if it misfires in the initial stage...
MDL has published tenders to procure DMR-249B steel for multiple midget submarines. Steel is a long lead item with a 2-year delivery period.
Probably the L&T-SOV400 design
Probably the L&T-SOV400 design