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Ganga 2001

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
गोदावरी [Godavari] F20   Mazagon Docks, Bombay 2.6.1978 15.5.1980 10.12.1983 stricken 12.2015
गोमती [Gomati] F21   Mazagon Docks, Bombay 17.8.1982 12.3.1984 16.4.1988 in service (2019)
गंगा [Ganga] F22   Mazagon Docks, Bombay 3.6.1980 15.10.1981 30.12.1985 stricken 3.2018


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

3700
Displacement full, t

4200
Length, m

123.6 pp 126.5 oa
Breadth, m

14.5
Draught, m

4.05 hull 4.50 max
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 Bhopal Y-160 geared steam turbines sets
Power, h. p.

30000
Max speed, kts

27
Fuel, t

oil 438
Endurance, nm(kts)

4500(12)
Armament

4 x 1 P-20 Termit SSM (4 P-20), 1 x 2 Osa-ME SAM (20 9M-33M), 1 x 2 - 57/75 AK-725, 4 x 2 -30/71 AK-230, 2 x 3 - 324 ILAS-3 TT (A244S, NST-58), 2 helicopters (1 Sea King, 1 Chetak)
Electronic equipment

F20: 2x ZW-06A, MR-310U Angara-M, RALW-02, 4R-33A, MR-103 Bars, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, SQS-505 sonar, Ajanta (INS-3 + TQN-2) ECM suite, 4x Ultrabarricade decoy RL, G738 torpedo decoy, IPN-10 CCS

F21: 2x ZW-06A, MR-310U Angara-M, RALW-02, 4R-33A, MR-103 Bars, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, APSOH HUS-001 sonar, Ajanta (INS-3 + TQN-2) ECM suite, 4x Ultrabarricade decoy RL, G738 torpedo decoy, IPN-10 CCS

F22: 2x ZW-06A, MR-310U Angara-M, RALW-02, 4R-33A, MR-103 Bars, 2x MR-104 Rys' radars, APSOH HUS-001, DSBV-62 sonars, Ajanta (INS-3 + TQN-2) ECM suite, 4x Ultrabarricade decoy RL, G738 torpedo decoy, IPN-10 CCS
Complement

313


Standard scale images


<i>Godavari </i>1990
Godavari 1990
<i>Gomati </i>2010
Gomati 2010
<i>Ganga </i>2010
Ganga 2010


Graphics


<i>Ganga </i>2001
Ganga 2001
<i>Godavari </i>2008
Godavari 2008


Project history

By broadening and lengthening the basic Leander hull the designers at Mazagon Dock were able to incorporate an extra Sea King helicopter. With four P-20 missiles and Osa missiles forward they are the first examples of a Western hull design incorporating Russian weapons.

Modernizations

2002, Ganga; 2003, Godavari; 2004, Gomati: - 1 x 2 Osa-ME SAM, MR-310U Angara-M, 1x ZW-06, 4R-33A radars; + 3 x 8 Barak SAM (24 Barak-1), EL/M-2238, EL/M-2221, new navigation radars

2005-2006, all: - 1x ZW-06 radar; + new navigation radar (2nd)

2008, Ganga; 2009, Godavari; 2010, Gomati: - 1 x 2 - 57/75, 4 x 2 - 30/71, MR-103 Bars radar, Ajanta ECM suite, 4x Ultrabarricade decoy RL; + 1 x 1 -76/62 OTO-Melara Compact SR, 4 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79, Lyn-TMX radar, Pearl, MBAT ECM suites, 2x Deseaver decoy RL, 2x Super Barricade decoy RL

Naval service

No significant events.