Indian Navy ships to visit for joint exercises |19 August 2010

The destroyer INS Mysore and the frigate INS Tabar will arrive on Saturday and sail out on Tuesday August 24.
The exercises will be aimed at enhancing the operational capability of the coast guard.

The 6,700-tonne Mysore was commissioned in June 1999. It is powered by four gas turbines, propelling it with 64,000 horsepower to a top speed of over 32 knots.

Its arsenal comprises surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, 100mm and 30mm guns, torpedoes, anti-submarine rockets and chaff decoys.

The Mysore is also equipped with a state-of-the-art sensor package and electronic warfare equipment, and has two integral helicopters on board.

It has a complement of 50 officers and 400 sailors and is commanded by Captain Atul Kumar Jain, a missile and gunnery specialist.

The Tabar is among the very latest frigates in the Indian Navy, being built at the Baltic Shipyard, St Petersburg, and commissioned in April 2004.

In its offensive role, its arsenal comprises vertical-launch long-range surface-to-surface missiles, long-range anti-ship and anti-submarine torpedoes and a 100mm calibre gun for offshore and onshore/inland targets.

The Tabar’s defensive capability is provided by a sophisticated SAM system, an automated high-calibre gun mount, a 12-barrel anti-submarine rocket launcher and a range of “soft-kill” measures.

The 4,000-tonne ship has a complement of  25 officers and 215 sailors and is commanded by Captain Biswajit Dasgupta, a navigation specialist.