Anti Submarine warship INS Kiltan joins naval fleet

Delhi | Monday | 16th October, 2017

Summary:

INS Kiltan is the latest indigenous warship after Shivalik Class, Kolkata Class and INS Kamorta and INS Kadmatt to have joined the the fleet of ships of Indian Navy.

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INS Kiltan is the latest indigenous warship after Shivalik Class, Kolkata Class and INS Kamorta and INS Kadmatt to have joined the the fleet of ships of Indian Navy.

INS Kiltan has been designed by the Indian Navy`s in-house organisation Directorate of Naval Design and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata.

Let`s take a glance at the salient feature of INS Kiltan: The ship hosts a predominantly indigenous cutting-edge weapons and sensors suite which includes heavyweight torpedoes INS Kiltan includes heavyweight torpedoes, ASW rockets, 76 mm caliber Medium Range gun and two multi-barrel 30 mm guns as close-in-weapon system (CIWS).

The ship houses fire control systems, missile decoy rockets (Chaff), advanced ESM (Electronic Support Measure) system, most advanced bow mounted sonar and air surveillance radar Revathi. 

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