Weapon systems of the Indian Navy
The Department of Defence Production of the Ministry of Defence is responsible for the indigenous production of equipment used by the Indian Navy and the other armed forces. It comprises the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories under control of the Ordnance Factories Board and eight Defence PSUs: HAL, BEL, BEML, BDL, MDL, GSL, GRSE and Midhani. The present weapon systems of the Indian Navy are:
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles
Ship launched ballistic missiles
Cruise/anti-ship missiles
Brahmos supersonic cruise missile is becoming the primary anti-ship missile of the Indian Navy.
- Brahmos Hypersonic Cruise Missile (Under development)
- Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile
- 3M-54E/3M-14E Klub Anti-Ship/Land Attack Cruise Missile (SS-N-27 Sizzler)
- Kh-35 (SS-N-25 SwitchBlade)
- P-20 (SS-N-2D Styx)
- Sea Eagle missile
- Harpoon (missile)
- Exocet missile (these missiles are used by Kalvari class
Air to air missiles
Surface to air missiles
Torpedoes
- Whitehead A244-S anti-submarine torpedo
- APR-3E torpedo
- SET-65E/53-65KE torpedo
- Type 53-65 torpedo (passive wake homing)
- TEST 71/76 anti-submarine, active and passive homing torpedo
- AEG-SUT Mod-1 wire-guided, active/passive homing torpedo
- DM2A4 Seahake torpedo
- Advanced Light Torpedo Shyena
- Varunastra
- Takshak (under develolpment)[4]
Main guns
- 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun (orders placed for 13 such guns in 2019)
- A-190(E) 100mm
- 100mm AK-100 naval gun
- AK-176-M 76mm gun
- AK-76/62 76mm gun
- Twin mount gun (76mm)
- OTO Melara Otobreda 76 mm gun
- Mk.6 Vickers 114mm gun
- Bofors 40mm/57mm/60mm guns
- Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
- CRN-91 30 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
Air defence guns
- AK-630 six-barreled 30 mm Gatling gun
- AK-230 twin 30 mm gun
- CADS-N-1 Kashtan
ASW rocket launchers
- RBU-6000
- RBU-6000 (RPK-8)
- RBU-12000 (UDAV-1)
- RBU-1000
- GSh-30-1
See Also
References
- "EXPRESS EXCLUSIVE: Maiden Test of Undersea K-4 Missile From Arihant Submarine". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- "India plans 5,000-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile". Hindustan Times. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- "DRDO on long range Pralay, K5 to stalemate China soon". The New Indian Express. 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- SUBRAMANIAN, T. S. "Underwater might". Frontline. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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