Shivalik-class frigate

INS Satpura (F48) transits the Indian Ocean during Malabar 2012.
Class overview
NameShivalik class
BuildersMazagon Dock Limited
Operators
Indian Navy Ensign
Indian Navy Ensign
Indian Navy
Preceded byTalwar class
Succeeded byNilgiri class
Cost650 Million USD[1]
Planned3[2]
Completed3
Active3
General characteristics
TypeGuided-missile frigate
Displacement6,200 tonnes (6,100 long tons; 6,800 short tons) full load[3]
Length144 m (472 ft)[4]
Beam16.9 m (55 ft)
Draught4.5 m (15 ft)
Installed power
  • 2 × Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines
  • 15,200 shp (11,300 kW)
  • 2 × GE LM2500+
  • 33,600 shp (25,100 kW)
Propulsionboost turbines in CODOG configuration.
Speed
  • 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)[5]
  • 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) (diesel engines)
RangeIn excess of 5,000 nautical miles (9,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)[6]
Complement257 (35 officers)[7]
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Fregat M2EM 3-D radar(Surface&Air)
  • 4 × MR-90 Orekh radar
  • 1 × Elta EL/M-2238 STAR
  • 2 × Elta EL/M 2221 STGR
  • 1 × BEL APARNA
  • HUMSA-NG (hull-mounted sonar array)[8]
Electronic warfare
& decoys
Armament
Aircraft carried2 × HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk. 42B helicopters.

The Shivalik class or Project 17 class is a class of multi-role frigates in service with the Indian Navy. They are the first warships designed with low observability features built in India.[9] They were designed to have better stealth features and land-attack capabilities than the preceding Talwar-class frigates.[10][11] A total of three ships were built between 2000 and 2010, and all three were in commission by 2012.[2]

The Shivalik class, along with the seven Project 17A frigates currently being developed from them, are projected be the principal frigates of the Indian Navy in the first half of the 21st century.[12] Four of the ships of the class were built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) and three by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), manufacturers of the Mahendragiri.[13] The class and the lead vessel have been named for the Shivalik hills. Subsequent vessels in the class are also named for hill ranges in India.[2]

  1. ^ "Shivalik Class Frigates".
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference naval-technology1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Shivalik class". Indiannavy.nic.in. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Samachar 2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Monica Chadha, India trials stealth frigate Archived 13 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, BBC, 18 April 2003
  6. ^ "India finalizing mega stealth frigates' project for over Rs 50,000 crore". 9 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  7. ^ Commodore Stephen Saunders, ed. (2016). "India". Jane's Fighting Ships 2016–2017 (119th ed.). Coulsdon: Jane's Information Group. p. 348. ISBN 978-0710631855.
  8. ^ a b c Waters, Conrad (2015). Seaforth World Naval Review 2013: pdf. Seaforth Publishing. p. 159. ISBN 9781473817999. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Riding the waves". Rediff.com. 10 May 2003. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  10. ^ "Indian Navy working on policy to allow women on-board warships". The Economic Times. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  11. ^ "INS-Sahyadri plays mid-sea saviour to Aussie lady sailor". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Capital Cruisers" Archived 21 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Sainik Samachar, Ministry of Defence (India), 15 March 2004. Adm. Madhvendra Singh, Chief of Naval Staff: "These would be the future ships of the Indian Navy and will be of the Shivalik class".
  13. ^ Salerno-Garthwaite, Andrew (31 August 2023). "India to launch Mahendragiri, the final Shivalik-class stealth warship". Naval Technology. Retrieved 31 August 2023.