RUSSIA: New Frigate for Indian Navy

The INS Talwar, first of three new frigates being built for the Indian Navy by Russia’s Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, will be completed on 27 November 2009. The frigate is a modified Krivak III Guided Missile Frigate, designed to fulfill a variety of maritime operations including hunting and killing large surface ships and submarines. The last frigate is expected to be delivered to the Indian Navy by 2011-2012. The new frigate is capable of 30 knots at a water displacement of 4,000 metric tons. She will be armed with eight BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, 100-mm gun, a Shtil surface-to-air missile system, two Kashtan air-defense gun/missile systems, two twin 533-mm torpedo launchers, and an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.