Posted on 06/24/2014 11:21:50 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
India's newly-built anti submarine warfare (ASW) corvette Kamorta is now ready to join the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet.
The warship is slated to be commissioned into the Indian Navy in July at Vishakhapatnam, where a nuclear submarine - Arihant - is also being built indigenously.
Now docked at the fitting-out jetty (FOJ) of Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE) here, Kamorta - a super-sophisticated frontline warship with stealth features - is readying to sail out to play its role as Indian Navy's newest submarine hunter/killer, a defence ministry statement said Tuesday.
It will be the first warship armed with an indigenous rocket launcher for ASW warfare, while also being the first warship armed with trainable chaff launcher.
A sturdy warship, Kamorta is the first in its class of four ASW corvettes being built under Project-28 (P28) for the Indian Navy.
ASW corvettes Kadmatt, Kiltan and Kavaratti are to follow suit progressively.
The lethal quartet - named after four islands in Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshwadeep archipelago - would be used to combat lurking enemy submarines and deployed as advance screen for the Carrier Battle Group to counter any submarine threat to the force.
Kamorta's designated Captain -- Commander Manoj Jha -- and the ship's company (officers and sailors) are meticulously carrying out checks of all systems and equipment onboard including the crucial gas-leak checks as per drills before the formal acceptance of the warship from GRSE later this month.
Photos. Looks impressive.
Impressive yes, but the ship has a heavy smell of curry.
Someone needs to Photoshop about 10,000 peasants clustered all over it.
That ship will make a great target for an anti ship missile.There is no stealth construction built in to it that I can see.
Yes, no doubt. Absolutely nauseating for sure.
I like naval vessels that look like they’re looking for trouble - like this one.
Look more closely.
like on those trains?
Last June, I was stuck on a flight from London to Mumbia next to an old Indian lady. Xanex and Vick’s vaporub under my nose was the only thing that saved me.
Looks like a frigate.
Can’t away from that ugly smell.
Was looking at homes to move to when retiring. Realtor took us to a perfect home, nice location, exactly what we wanted. . .except when you walked in it STUNK to high heaven with curry. An Indian couple lived there for about 10-yrs and polluted the place. We did NOT buy that place.
Heard from the realtor later that it did sell, deeply discounted, and the new owners replaced all the carpet and had the entire home re-painted. . .but to no affect. Stink still remained. . .apparently the smell permeated into the sheet-rock and into the wall and ceiling insulation. No way to get ride of it.
The owners walked away from it when no one would buy it.
; )
-—hurry ,before dinner! for some of THE MOST SHOCKING photos I have ever seen —Google “ chinasmack.com-filthy
Indian photos”. These appear to be recent and are just
breathtaking!!
Look more closely?I did look at the side of that ship.Can almost bet that the sides have a radar return of a barn.
exterior bulkheads angled down, changes return path for radars
This is the one you’re looking for:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
Better than the Oliver Hazard Billboard FFG class we had/have.
And stomach-emptying. . . typical third-world (and based upon a photo, ‘turd-world’) trying to buy their way into the first world.
If it looks like, armed like, manned like, (and it floats) it's a duck er frigate.
3000+ tons, heavy SSMs, short range SAM and gun CIWS, SeaKing helo capability, crew 120-200*: It's at leas a light frigate, maybe more
* My current system of rating warships is primarily crew size (I've gone back to Sam Pepys -(there was a dude who knew about the organisation of navies) - Corvettes carry 60-100. and below that they may be LACs, but not Combat Ships.
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