Posted on 09/17/2009 8:15:39 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Navy to launch stealth destroyer tomorrow
INS Kochi has advanced stealth features that make it less vulnerable to detection by enemy radar. Its weapons system include the nuclear capable supersonic BrahMos surface-to-surface missile and Long Range Surface-to-Air missiles
The Indian Navy is scheduled to launch a stealth destroyer capable of carrying nuclear warheads here on Friday.
The 6,500-tonne warship INS Kochi was indigenously built by Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Ltd and designed by the Directorate of Naval Design. It will add to the existing Delhi class fleet comprising INS Delhi, INS Mysore and INS Mumbai, according to a press release.
In keeping with the tradition, the warship will be launched by Madhulika Verma, the wife of Naval chief Admiral Nirmal Verma.
INS Kochi has advanced stealth features that make it less vulnerable to detection by enemy radar. Its weapons system include the nuclear capable supersonic BrahMos surface-to-surface missile and Long Range Surface-to-Air missiles, the release said.
It also has Multi-Function Radar System for acquiring data on surface and air targets. The ship will also be fitted with indigenously built twin-tube torpedo launchers and anti-submarine rocket launchers. The maximum speed of the ship is above 30 knots, the release said.
The destroyer will be launched using the pontoon-assisted launch technique, to be employed for the first time in the history of indigenous warship building.
This technique helps in overcoming slipway constraints and permits launching of heavier vessels.
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See picture here. http://www.domain-b.com/defence/sea/indian_navy/20090917_ins_kochi_domain-b.html
LOTS of near-vertical freeboard plus a remarkably cluttered superstructure do not place this vessel in a ‘world class stealth’ category.
If you are blind and deaf, it's stealth.
USS Zumwalt is coming in a few years. 14,500 ton destroyer. And truly stealthy.
Only three hulls planned.
“The number of ships required was planned to be between eight and 12 but, in July 2008, the US Navy announced that the DDG 1000 programme would be cancelled after the completion of the first two ships. The USN will instead continue with construction of further Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) destroyers. However, in August 2008, the USN announced that it had decided to provide funding for a third Zumwalt Class destroyer.”
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/dd21/
Umm-that’s a Delhi class ship, which is a Project-15. 1980s design. The Kochi is a Project-15A.
OK. YOU find a pic ;-)
No comparison between this ship and the Zumwalts-but the projected number of ships have come down from over 30 to 3. And with the Big O in Washington-getting all three would be a big deal in itself.
There’s no pic since the first of the class will enter service by next year. The closest you have is the CGI I posted-VLS cells, Israeli radar and stealth mounted main gun.
Understood. ‘Cuz the pic posted with the news release is anything but stealthy ;-)
Also a 15-B in the works.
It’s more or less in the league of most current surface ships which employ RCS-reducing features.
Somehow, ‘14,500 tons’ and ‘stealth’ don’t seem to go together. It’s kind of like launching Shuttles with DoD payloads at night so no one will know. :-}
The 15B is an upgrade to the 15A, not a next generation design.
Do you think it will survive the upcoming China vs. India war?
Lets see if the Sino-Indian conflict goes to sea. If it ever takes off.
Nope.
Good grief! The USS Constellation sitting in Baltimore harbor has better stealth characteristics than the picture shown in this article.
pretty stealthy since all I see are tiny red x’s
“upcoming China vs. India war?”
When is that comming up?
India and China have been at war since about 1957 in the Himalayan regions o f India.
All the have is a cease fire, which is sporadically broken from time to time. Hell the ChiComs are building roads out of Tibet into Bhutan and in other Indian protectorates!Its just WAY under reported.
Ships don’t have to be as stealthy as aircraft for it to be invisible to radar.
Firstly, radar loses effectiveness when scanning for targets along the horizon.
Secondly, the Earth’s curvature allows for the loss of line-of-sight.
Thirdly, aircraft are detected against the empty background of the sky. Ships, not always so.
Firstly, radar loses effectiveness when scanning for targets along the horizon.
Secondly, the Earth’s curvature allows for the loss of line-of-sight.
Thirdly, aircraft are detected against the empty background of the sky. Ships, not always so.
I truly understand all of that..as do most....
However, the ship shown in the article's picture certainly has a worse stealth posture than the USS Constellation that is floating in Balto harbor.
IAC, the fleet is always supported by airborne systems in addition to the shipborne systems. So line-of-sight/over-the-horizon characteristics are not stumbling blocks.....But the chaotic structures, as shown in this article, are.
PJ-10 Brahmos ASCM.
This really bugs me. A warship that displaces 14,500 tons is NOT a destroyer. It is a heavy guided missile cruiser - a CG; maybe even a battle cruiser, a BCG. We had a class of armored cruisers that didn’t mass 10,000 tons that served in WWII.
The navy needs to stop calling all its new ships “destroyers.”
Congress might approve funding for something called a "destroyer" but funding for cruisers or battleships is a lot harder to come by.
A roise is a rose is a rose -- but if you call it an daisy I'll cough up the money.
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