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India's GRSE lays keel of its third Project 17A Frigate
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India’s GRSE lays keel of its third Project 17A Frigate

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) laid the keel of the third Project 17A frigate for the Indian Navy. A keel laying ceremony took place on 5 March 2021 at the shipyard in Kolkata.

Xavier Vavasseur 15 Mar 2021

This will be the third and final Project 17A frigate built by GRSE. For the record, the first-in-class ship, Nilgiri , was launched in September 2019 by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL). The first Project 17A frigate built by GRSE, Himgiri, was launched in December 2020. Seven vessels of the class are planned. Four will be built by MDL and three by GRSE. MDL laid the keel of two more Project 17A ships: One in May 2019 and another one in September 2020. GRSE laid the keel of its second frigate of the class in January 2020. MDL still has to lay the keel of one last ship.

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) achieved a major milestone with ‘laying of the Keel’ of Yard 3024 a ship of the Advanced Stealth Frigate Project, P 17A. pic.twitter.com/t6eyt06h5O

— GRSE – Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (@OfficialGRSE) March 5, 2021

According to official data, 80 percent of the Project 17A frigates construction is done with Indian-made materials and equipment. More than 2000 local firms are involved in the supply chain.

Project 17A is the largest surface combatant ever built by GRSE. It is also the first combat platform GRSE builds equipped with a gas turbine. For this reason, the company had to expand the infrastructure of the Kolkata shipyard and modernize production.

About Project 17A / Nilgiri-class frigate

The Nilgiri-class frigate or Project 17A is a follow-on of the Project 17 Shivalik-class frigate for the Indian Navy. The frigates are built with extensive use of low-observability technologies, including new radar-absorbing coatings, composite materials and “faceted” shape superstructures.

The ship will be fitted with a 127mm main gun, two 30 mm AK-630M anti-aircraft artillery systems, two torpedo tubes, launchers for eight BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and 32 Barak-8 surface to air missiles. Its main radar will be the MF-STAR by IAI.

Project 17A frigates main characteristics

  • Displacement: 6,670 tons
  • Length: 149 meters
  • Width: 17,8 meters
  • Draft: 5,22 meters
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Range: 5,500 nautical miles
  • Crew: 226 sailors
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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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