Engineering:Vela-class submarine

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A variant of the Foxtrot-class submarine of the Indian Navy
Class overview
Name: Vela class[1]
Builders: Sudomekh, Admiralty Shipyard
Operators:  Indian Navy
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In commission: 1973–2010[2]
Planned: 4
Completed: 4
Retired: 4
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement:
  • 1,952 t (1,921 long tons) surfaced
  • 2,475 t (2,436 long tons) submerged
Length: 91.3 m (299 ft 6 in)
Beam: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught: 6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed:
  • 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced
  • 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) submerged
Range:
  • 20,000 mi (32,000 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced
  • 380 mi (610 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) submerged
Test depth: 250 m (820 ft)
Complement: 75 (incl 8 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:		 Panchendriya sonar
Armament:
  • 10 533mm torpedo tubes with 22 SET-65E/SAET-60 torpedoes
  • 44 mines in lieu of torpedoes

Vela-class submarines of the Indian Navy were variants of the later Soviet Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s. The last of the class was decommissioned from the Indian Navy in December 2010. The submarines formed the 8th Submarine Squadron and were based at INS Virbahu.[3]

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Ships of the class

Name Pennant Builder Commissioned Decommissioned Status
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. S40 Sudomekh 31 August 1973 25 June 2010
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. S41 Sudomekh 3 November 1973 7 June 2001
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. S42 Sudomekh 10 August 1974 9 December 2010 To be preserved as a museum[5]
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. S43 Sudomekh 26 December 1974 30 April 1997

References

  1. ↑ "Submarines of Indian Navy". http://indiannavy.nic.in/sub_vela.htm. 
  2. ↑ "Bharat-Rakshak.com :: NAVY - Kalvari Class (Foxtrot Class)". http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Submarines/Past/92-Kavari-Class.html. 
  3. ↑ "INS Virbahu | Indian Navy". https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-virbahu. 
  4. ↑ Jesudasan, Dennis S. (23 July 2017). "Decommissioned submarine languishes in Chennai" (in en-IN). The Hindu (The Hindu Group). https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/decommissioned-submarine-languishes-in-chennai/article19337125.ece. 
  5. ↑ "Sea Dredging Mooted to Take Sub to Mamallapuram Shores". The New Indian Express. 6 August 2014. http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Sea-Dredging-Mooted-to-Take-Sub-to-Mamallapuram-Shores/2014/08/06/article2366522.ece. 

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