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pirate - May 29, 2010 01:04 PM (GMT)
INS Rana,Indian Navy's guided missile destroyer, arrived at Jakarta early today. INS Rana alongwith IN Ships Ranjit (Guided Missile Destroyer), Jyoti (Fleet Tanker) and Kulish (Missile Corvette) are on eastward deployment. During the deployment the ships will undertake passage exercises with navies of various countries to Jakarta (Indonesia) the ships will variously be making port calls at Hai Phong (Veitnam), Manila(Phillipines), Muara (Brunei),Bangkok (Thailand), Fremantle (Australia), Singapore and Port Kelang(Malaysia). Kelang(Malaysia). The ships of the Eastern Fleet are sailing under the flag of Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet(FOCEF) RAdm PN Murugesan. The ships are likely to return to Indian waters by end Jun 10.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=62058

Callsign 24 Seira - May 29, 2010 03:20 PM (GMT)
NS Rana (D52) is the second of the five Rajput class destroyers built for the Indian Navy. INS Rana was commissioned on 28 June 1982. She is a redesigned type of the Soviet Kashin class destroyer.

View the Rajput class destroyers from the 2nd minute of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQewIhkubqQ

35 knots baby!
Displacement: 4,974 tons full load
Complement: 320 (including 35 officers)

Sensors and processing systems:
Navigation: 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency,
Air: 1 x MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band,
Air/Surface : 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band,

Communication :Inmarsat

Sonar : 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar

Armament:
4 x SS-N-2 AShM,
4 x P-20M (NATO: SS-N-2D) missiles in single-tube launchers,
1 x 76 mm main gun,
4 x 30mm AK-230 guns,
2 x S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM in twin launchers,
1 x 533mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher,
2 x RBU-6000 anti-submarines mortars

Aircraft carried: 1 x Ka-28 or HAL Chetak helicopter

Edit for "2nd minute of the 9 min video"

FIVE-TWO - May 29, 2010 04:19 PM (GMT)
her sister ship INS Ranvir was at IMDEX.

bdique - May 30, 2010 02:58 AM (GMT)
hmm, India making a presence in China's 'backyard'?

eurofighter - June 5, 2010 12:38 PM (GMT)
Was on board INS Rana at Fremantle today. She's open to the public this weekend.

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