Saryu-class patrol vessel

The Saryu class of offshore patrol vessels (OPV) are advanced patrol ships of the Indian Navy built at the Goa Shipyard Limited. These vessels are capable of ocean surveillance and monitoring and can maintain control of shipping lanes. They can also be deployed to provide security to offshore oil installations, and other naval assets.^[3]

INS Saryu en-route to Phuket,Thailand.
Class overview
Name	Saryu class
Builders	Goa Shipyard Limited
Operators	Indian Navy  Sri Lanka Navy
Preceded by	Sukanya class
Succeeded by	NGOPV Shachi class (cancelled)
Planned	6
Completed	6
Active	6
General characteristics
Type	Offshore patrol vessel
Displacement	2,230 t (2,190 long tons; 2,460 short tons)[1]
Length	105 m (344 ft)[2]
Beam	12.9 m (42 ft)[3]
Draught	4.9 m (16 ft)[1]
Propulsion	2 × Pielstick PA 6B STC diesel engines, 21,725 PS (15,979 kW)[1]
Speed	25 kn (46 km/h)[3]
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 16 kn (30 km/h)[1]
Complement	16 officers and 102 sailors[2]
Sensors and processing systems	Sperry Bridgemaster I-band navigation radar EON-51 electro-optical FCS[1]
Electronic warfare & decoys	Sanket Mk III Electronic Support System Communication Intelligence System ELK 7036 4 × Kavach chaff launchers[4][1]
Armament	1 × 76 mm/62 Oto Melara gun 2 × 30 mm/65 AK-630 CIWS[1]
Aircraft carried	1 × HAL Dhruv[1]

Design and development

Saryu class was derived from Sankalp-class vessels built for the Indian Coast Guard.^[5] The ships were designed by GSL's in-house design team and built at a cost of ₹2,452 crore (equivalent to ₹55 billion or US$650 million in 2023).^[2][6] The vessels are powered by two Pielstick diesel engines rated at a combined 21,725 metric horsepower (15,979 kW), each driving a Wärtsilä WCP 5C10 controllable-pitch propeller through a reduction gearbox.^[7][8]

Construction

The first ship, INS Saryu was launched on 30 March 2009 in the presence of Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta.^[9] INS Saryu was handed over to the Navy on 21 December 2012^[10][11] and was commissioned on 21 January 2013 at Vasco da Gama, by the Commander-in-Chief of Andaman and Nicobar Command, Air Marshal P K Roy.^[2][12]

The second ship, INS Sunayna, was handed over to the Indian Navy on 2 September 2013; her first CO was to be Cdr Aftab Ahmed Khan.^[13] The three remaining ships were delivered subsequently with an interval of six months each.^[12] INS Sumitra, the fourth and last OPV, was delivered to the Navy by GSL on 16 July 2014.^[14] Two ships were delivered to Sri Lankan Navy in 2017 and 2018.

Ships of the class

Name	Pennant	Keel laid	Launched	Delivered	Commissioned	Home port	Status
Indian Navy
Saryu	P54[15]	15 December 2006[1]	30 March 2009[16]	21 December 2012[17]	21 January 2013[2]	Sri Vijaya Puram	Active
Sunayna	P57[15]	25 September 2007[1]	14 November 2009[1]	2 September 2013[13][18]	15 October 2013[1]	Kochi[13][18]
Sumedha	P58	7 May 2008[1]	21 May 2011[19][1]	14 January 2014[17]	7 March 2014[20][21]	Sri Vijaya Puram
Sumitra	P59	28 April 2010[1]	6 December 2010[1]	16 July 2014[14]	4 September 2014	Chennai[22]
Sri Lanka Navy
Sayurala	P623	10 September 2014	11 June 2016[23]	22 July 2017[24]	2 August 2017[25]	Colombo	Active
Sindurala[26]	P624	9 May 2015[27]	2 May 2017[28]	22 March 2018[29]	19 April 2018[30]

Operators

•  Indian Navy
•  Sri Lanka Navy

Gallery

Saryu-class ships at sea

• 
  Top view of Saryu
• 
  SLNS Sindurala and Sumedha during SLINEX 2019
• 
  Sunayna returns to Kochi post an 80 day anti piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden.
• 
  Sunayna at sea.
• 
  USS Russell (DDG-59) with Sumitra during a passex exercise.
• 
  Sumedha en-route to Mongla, Bangladesh
• 
  SLNS Sayurala at Goa Shipyard.

See also

• List of active Indian Navy ships
• List of Sri Lanka Navy equipment