Weapon_systems_of_the_Indian_Navy Knowpia

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:

Ballistic Missile edit

Submarine-launched edit

Sagarika SLBM
K4 SLBM (In production)^[1]^[2]
K-5 SLBM (Under development)^[3]
K-6 SLBM (Under development)^[4]

Ship launched edit

Cruise/anti-ship missiles edit

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 (Used by Kalvari class)
Rampage (missile)
NASM-SR(Under development)
NASM-MR(Under development)

Air to air missiles edit

Surface to air missiles edit

VL-SRSAM

Barak 1 - Being replaced by VL-SRSAM missile.
Barak 8
SA-N-12 (SA-17 Grizzly)
SA-N-11 (SA-19 Grison)
SA-N-7 (SA-11 Gadfly)
SA-N-5
SA-N-4 (OSA-M)
SA-N-1 (S-125M)
SA-16 (Igla MANPAD)
VL-SRSAM

Torpedoes edit

Varunastra advanced heavyweight torpedo of the Indian Navy.

Whitehead A244-S anti-submarine torpedo
APR-3E torpedo
CET-65E torpedo
Type 53-65KE 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 development)^[5]

Main guns edit

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
Bofors 40mm/57mm/60mm guns
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
CRN-91 30 mm cannon (for patrol boats)

Air defence guns edit

AK-630 six-barreled 30 mm Gatling gun
AK-230 twin 30 mm gun
CADS-N-1 Kashtan

ASW rocket launchers edit

RBU-6000
RBU-6000 (RPK-8)
RBU-12000 (UDAV-1)
RBU-1000

References edit

^ "Arihant's N-capable missile 'ready to roll'". The Times of India. 14 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^ Peri, Dinakar (19 January 2020). "India successfully test-fires 3,500-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile K-4". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^ "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.