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:	30 September 1980
Identification:	Pennant number: D51
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Rajput-class destroyer
Displacement:	3,950 tons standard, 4,974 tons full load
Length:	147 m (482 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 or 1 x Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar at D-band (installed on INS Ranjit), Air/Surface: 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, replaced by 1 x EL/M-2238 STAR 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: 1 × 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 30 September 1980. Commodore (later Vice Admiral) Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani was her first commanding officer.

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. She is capable of attacking land targets, as well as fulfilling anti-aircraft and anti-submarine roles as a taskforce or carrier escort.Rajput tracked the Dhanush ballistic missile during a successful test in 2005.

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