Naval ship INS Taragiri bows out of service

[SRP]

Indian naval ship INS Taragiri, the last of the six British-designed but indigenously built Nilgiri class frigates, will bow out of service Thursday after 33 years of glorious service to the nation, an official here said.

INS Taragiri, christened after a hill range in the Garhwal Himalayas, was commissioned May 16, 1980, and was the youngest of her sister ships — Nilgiri, Himgiri, Dunagiri, Udaygiri and Vindhyagiri.

Cdr. Rahul Shankar, an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pune, and Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, is INS Taragiri’s 27th and last commanding officer.

The Nilgiri class frigates were the advanced versions of the Leander class of British-designed frigates and built for the Indian Navy by Mazagaon Dock Ltd, Mumbai.

When the first ship in the class, INS Nilgiri, was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1972, it became a trend-setter as they incorporated increasingly higher levels of indigenization, state-of-the-art technology, weapons and sensors of that era, the official said.

Later, INS Taragiri and INS Vindhyagiri, the last two ships in that class, were significantly modified with the addition of a Seaking anti-submarine helicopter, A244S 321mm triple torpedo tubes and a Bofors anti-submarine twin barrel mortar.

Recognising the ship’s considerably enhanced and potent anti-submarine capabilities, the ship’s crest depicts a Pallas fishing eagel, a predatory Indian bird found in the foothills of Taragiri hills, signifying that INS Taragiri was “ready to pounce at the enemy underwater,” the official added.

In recent years, it was also fitted with advance ship control systems to facilitate control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Thus, she retained her “cutting edge and functioned as the eye of the Western Naval Fleet for surveillance at extended ranges, blue water operations and network centric warfare, as also the chosen platform for coastal patrolling and anti-piracy operations,” the official said.

The solemn de-commissioning ceremony will be held later in the afternoon in Mumbai, the official added.

Naval ship INS Taragiri bows out of service | idrw.org

 

[anant_s]

Gratitude and Respect for the boat and Brave men who manned her for a wonderful sevice to the nation!

 

[Koovie]

Will it be used for target practice ?

 

[AADHAAR]

1. Why not give it the coast guard?

2. Sell it cheap to Phillipines or Vietnam?

It will be good enough (at the very least) to shoo away "fishing boat navies".

 

[Gessler]

 

[ExtraOdinary]

Sell it to BD . Make some money

 

[BDforever]

Sell it to BD . Make some money

 

[ExtraOdinary]

Ok bro, we give it for free. Take mamta didi also as free package

 

[BDforever]

Ok bro, we give it for free. Take mamta didi also as free package

conspiracy ?

 

[Dash]

Ok bro, we give it for free. Take mamta didi also as free package

That will be great!!!.....

 

[Gessler]

Sell it to BD . Make some money

BD don't have any money to give us. It'll be better it they take it off our chest for free.

 

[Dash]

BD don't have any money to give us. It'll be better it they take it off our chest for free.

When they can buy stuff from Russia, they can buy stuff from us too..

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Well the last of the Leanders bows out of service. The Leanders represented the beginning of modern warship construction in India and are tied to the growth of the advent of idigeneous warship design in leading upto the P-15, P-17, P-25 projects in India.

When the Leander design was first offered to India, there was no local expertise in warship building but only in warship repair; which was very different in character. So 'ab-initio' capabilities had to be built up. Which was not without attendant problems. But solving those problems helped to create capabilities in incremental fashion. So much so that the first Leander INS Nilgiri was dramatically different and inferior to the last INS Taragiri in capability. Plus the periodic upgrades kept the evolutionary process continuing. Even the British designers at Vickers (the original builders of Leanders) were left amazed by what the IN ended up doing to their design.
Just looking at the picture above (in the quoted post) it is apparent that but for the original 4.5" twin gun mount; everything else is different from the Leanders in terms of weapon and sensor fit. The IN retained the original hull form; while lengthening it initially and then even broadening it later because it was found to be extremely good in sea-keeping abilities. While the IN retained the original Steam Turbine propulsion for reasons of familiarity and economy. But the Steam Plant; Boilers, Turbines and Gear-Boxes were rapidly indigenised and even led to the first-time entry of a Pvt. manufacturer for the gear-boxes.
Replacement of the original Plessey and Marconi Radars led to the collaboration between BEL and Signaal of Holland, whose Volume Search Radar can be seen in the picture. Replacement of the British Sonars (which were found to under-perform in tropical conditions) led to the successful project to design and build sonars in India. The original Sea-Cat SAMs (IN's first SAMs) were similarly poor which forced the IN to look at substitutes in SU/Russia and later Israel.

When the Leanders became obsolete in Britain; the RN offered the Type 21 Amazon Class Frigates (PN's Tariq class ships) to India to buy and then build later. After evaluation; the Design Bureau in the IN turned it down and decided to work further on the Leander Hull as a basis. This was a farsighted decision and as later events proved to be a far better decision. As the Amazons had issues with stability/sea-keeping and Hull Fatigue apart from reliability of the GT props.

IN worked on modifying the Leander Hulls on the basis of its own tank-tests and ended up with the design for the Godavari and Brahmaputra Frigates which were great Hybrids in themselves of Western Sensors and Russian Armaments and more capable than the RN had fitted their similar ships for.

The 'Leander Chapter' in Indian Warship building was a huge leap forward in creating a custom-built and capable fleet of warships for the IN. That is how the Leanders will be celebrated.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

BD don't have any money to give us. It'll be better it they take it off our chest for free.

What the hell you talking man, they have a decent navy and are modernising fast.
On a lighter note they are ambitious too, I mean see this

http://www.defence.pk/forums/bangladesh-defence/224749-bangladesh-will-nuclear-country.html

 

[anant_s]

Take mamta didi also as free package

That would be SOME gattling gun!