Engineering:INS Sindhuraj (S57)

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History
India
Name: INS Sindhuraj
Launched: 18 April 1987
Commissioned: 20 October 1987
General characteristics
Class and type: Sindhughosh-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 2325 tons surfaced
  • 3076 tons dived
Length: 72.6 m (238 ft)
Beam: 9.9 m (32 ft)
Draught: 6.6 m (22 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 3,650 hp (2,720 kW) diesel-electric motors
  • 1 × 5,900 hp (4,400 kW) motor
  • 2 × 204 hp (152 kW) auxiliary motors
  • 1 × 130 hp (97 kW) economic speed motor
Speed:
  • Surfaced; 11 knots (20 km/h)[1]
  • Snorkel Mode; 9 knots (17 km/h)
  • Submerged; 19 knots (35 km/h)[2]
Range:
  • Snorting: 6,000 mi (9,700 km) at 7 kn (13 km/h)
  • Submerged: 400 miles (640 km) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h)
Endurance: Up to 45 days with a crew of 52
Test depth:
  • Operational Depth; 240 m (790 ft)
  • Maximum Depth; 300 m (980 ft)
Complement: 52 (incl. 13 Officers)
Armament:
  • 9M36 Strela-3 (SA-N-8) SAM launcher
  • Klub-S (3M-54E) ASCM
  • Type 53-65 passive wake homing torpedo
  • TEST 71/76 anti-submarine, active-passive homing torpedo
  • 24 DM-1 mines in lieu of torpedo tube

INS Sindhuraj (S57) (King of the Sea) is a Sindhughosh-class diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy.[3]

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