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INDIAN NAVY (INDIA)

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KALVARI submarines (2017-)

Kalvari 2017

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
कलवारी [Kalvari] S21 11875 Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 14.12.2006 27.10.2015 14.12.2017 in service (2019)
खंडेरी [Khanderi] S22 11876 Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 10.2011 12.1.2017 2019 building (2019)
करंज [Karanj] S23 11877 Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 2012? 31.1.2018 2019 building (2019)
वेला [Vela]   11878 Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 2013? 6.5.2019 2020 building (2019)
वअगिर [Vagir]     Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 2014? 2020 2021 building (2019)
वग्शीर [Vagsheer]     Mazagon Docks, Mumbai 2015? 2021 2022 building (2019)
 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1550 / 1790

Length, m

67.0

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

5.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

4 MTU 12V396 SE84 diesel-generators, 1 Jeumont-Schneider electric motor

Power, h. p.

3800

Max speed, kts

12 / 20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

6500(8) / 550(4)

Armament

6 - 533 TT (18 Black Shark and Varunastra torpedoes, 6 SM39 Exocet SSM)

Electronic equipment

type 1007 radar, S-Cube sonar suite, Condor AR-900 ECM suite, C303 (WASS) torpedo decoys, SUBTICS CCS

Complement

31

Diving depth operational, m

350

Project history: With negotiations ongoing since 2001, a contract was signed in 2005 for six Scorpene-class (Project 75A) boats. All six subs are built at Mazagon Dockyard with significant on-sight assistance from DCN. The last two units will be fitted with AIP propulsion (MESMA AIP systems), which require the addition of an 8-meter hull plug. Employ HLES-80 steel in the pressure hull, which permits diving depths in excess of 350 m. A 360-cell battery is employed. All machinery is "rafted" for sound isolation. Only nine personnel are on watch under normal conditions. The possible addition of the MESMA air-independent auxiliary propulsion (AIP) system would lengthen the hull and increase displacements from the figures given above. The UDS International SUBTICS (Submarine Tactical Information and Command System) weapons control system is similar to the French Navy's SET (Systeme d'Exploitation Tactique). The sonar suite includes a cylindrical bow transducer array, an active array, a passive ranging array, an acoustic intercept system, and passive flank arrays.

    Planned next six submarines of Project 75I, estimated since 2023, will have AIP propulsion and carry Brahmos cruise/anti-ship missiles in vertical tubes.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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