INS Sahyadri

INS Sahyadri (F49) is a Shivalik-class stealth multi-role frigate built for the Indian Navy. This class features improved stealth and land attack capabilities over the preceding Talwar-class frigates.^[5] The ship is affiliated with Indian Army's Poona Horse armoured regiment.^[6][7]

Sahyadri at sea.
History
India
Name	Sahyadri
Namesake	Sahyadri hills
Builder	Mazagon Dock Limited
Cost	$245 Million
Laid down	17 March 2003
Launched	27 May 2005
Commissioned	21 July 2012
Identification	F49
Status	Active
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General characteristics
Class & type	Shivalik-class guided missile frigate
Displacement	6,200 tonnes (6,100 long tons; 6,800 short tons) full load[1]
Length	142.5 m (468 ft)[2]
Beam	16.9 m (55 ft)
Draught	4.5 m (15 ft)
Installed power	2 × Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines (11,300 kW each) 2 × GE LM2500+ (25,100 kW each)
Propulsion	CODOG
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)[3] 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) (diesel engines)
Complement	257 (including 35 officers + 222 sailors)
Sensors & processing systems	Radar :- 1 x Fregat M2EM 3-D radar (Surface & Air) 4 × MR-90 Orekh radar 1 × Elta EL/M-2238 STAR 2 × Elta EL/M 2221 STGR 1 × BEL APARNA Sonar :- BEL HUMSA-NG active/passive sonar[4] Thales Sintra active towed-array sonar Combat Suite :- "Combat Management System" (CMS-17A)
Electronic warfare & decoys	BEL Ellora electronic warfare suite[4] Decoy:- 4 x Kavach decoy launchers[4]
Armament	Anti-air missiles: 32-cell VLS for Barak 1 missiles 1 × Shtil-1 arm launcher (24 missiles) Anti-ship/Land-attack missiles: 8 × VLS launched BrahMos, anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles Guns: 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun 2 × AK-630 CIWS 2 x OFT 12.7 mm M2 Stabilized Remote Controlled Gun Anti-submarine warfare: 2 × 2 DTA-53-956 torpedo launchers 2 × RBU-6000 (RPK-8) rocket launchers
Aircraft carried	2 × HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk. 42B helicopters.

Construction

Sahyadri under construction

INS Sahyadri was built at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) located in Mumbai. The keel of the vessel was laid on 30 September 2003 and was launched on 27 May 2005. It underwent sea trials in 2011–2012. From there it was commissioned on 21 July 2012 into the Eastern Naval Command headquartered at Visakhapatnam.^[5]

Service history

Deployment	Date	Port Visited	Commander	Notes and References
2012
Commissioned			Captain Sanjay Vatsayan	[8]
2013
International Fleet Review 2013	October	Sydney, Australia		[9]
2014
South East Asia and Western Pacific	10-13 June	Darwin, Australia	Captain Jyotin Raina[10]	[11]
	2 July - 2 August	Hawaii, United States		Exercise RIMPAC[12][13][14]
	20 August	Manila, Philippines		[15]
2015
South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific	2-5 October	Da Nang, Vietnam.	Captain Kunal Singh Rajkumar[16]	[17]
	15 October	Sagami Bay, Japan		International Fleet Review organized by the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF)[18]
	23-27 October	Incheon, South Korea		[16]
	1-4 November	Manila, Philippines		[19]
INDRA 2015 with INS Sahyadri, INS Ranvijay, INS Shakti, INS Sindhuvir and other naval aircraft	7-12 December	Bay of Bengal		Bi-lateral exercise with the Russian Navy[20]
2016
South China Sea and Northwestern Pacific with naval frigate INS Satpura, corvette INS Kirch and fleet-tanker INS Shakti	30 May - 2 June	Subic Bay, Philippines	Captain K S Rajkumar[21]	[22][23][24]
	14-17 June	Sasebo, Japan		Malabar 2016[25]
	21-25 June	Busan, South Korea		[26][27]
	27 June - 1 July	Vladivostok, Russia		[28][29]
2025
Indian Ocean Region deployment	7 April	Colombo, Sri Lanka		[30]

Miscellaneous

INS Sahyadri was awarded the ‘Best Ship Trophy’ at the annual Fleet Awards functions five times namely in the years 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18, 2019-20 and 2020-21 and was also presented with Unit Citation in the year 2019-20 in Visakhapatnam.^[31]