Saturday, April 28, 2018

Showing Some Destroyer Love With These 12 Beautiful Indian Navy Warship Pics

A class of warship that pack the most punch for the Indian Navy.
Destroyers, in the fleet, are the largest warship of offence - it, currently, operates no Cruisers. A collection of photographs of some of the classes of Destroyers, that it has operated since its inception.
Rajput-class Guided Missile Destroyer
A heavily modified variant of the Soviet Kashin-class destroyers, based on the Indian Navy's design inputs, it operates a fleet of 5 such Warships, all attached to its Eastern Command:
  • INS Rajput [D51]
  • INS Rana [D52]
  • INS Ranjit [D53]
  • INS Ranvir [D54]
  • INS Ranvijay [D55]
INS Ranjit [D53]
The 3rd Warship of its class, it was commissioned into the fleet on November 24, 1983.
INS Ranjit - D53 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 03 - TN
INS Ranjit - D53 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
INS Ranjit - D53 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 02 - TN
INS Ranvir [D54]
The 4th Warship of its class, it commenced service with the Navy fleet on April 21, 1986.
INS Ranvir - D54 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 02 - TN
INS Ranvir - D54 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 03 - TN
INS Ranvir - D54 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
INS Ranvir - D54 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 04 - TN
INS Ranvijay [D55]
The Navy commissioned the last Destroyer of its Class on December 21, 1987.
INS Ranvijay - D55 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
Delhi-class Guided Missile Destroyer
The successor design to the Rajput-class, it was also almost 60 percent heavier than it. The Navy operates only 3 of its class:
  • INS Mysore [D60]
  • INS Delhi [D61]
  • INS Mumbai [D62]
INS Mysore [D60]
The second warship of its class, the INS Mysore was commissioned into the Indian Navy on January 22, 2001
INS Mysore - D60 - Guide Missile Destroyer - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
INS Godavari [D92]
A Type II Hunt-class Destroyer that the UK, initially, leased to the Indian Navy in 1953, which India, later acquired in 1959.
INS Godavari - D92 - Destroyer Warship - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
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INS Ganga [D94]
Another Indian Navy-operated Type II Hunt-class Destroyer.
INS Ganga - D94 - Destroyer Warship - Indian Navy - 01 - TN
INS Ganga - D94 - Destroyer Warship - Indian Navy - 02 - TN
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All images, unless otherwise stated: www.archives.gov
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