Indian Navy to get more firepower
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting chaired by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave approval for the procurement of BrahMos Missiles for two of the vessels to be built in Russia.
As has been reported by FE earlier, as a follow up of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) in October for the procurement of four Grigorovich-class ‘Project 1135.6’ frigates, will be equipped with BrahMos Missiles system instead of 3M-54E Klub-N anti-ship missiles and advanced sensors.
The world’s fastest missile has supersonic speed of Mach 2.8, a very low-cruising altitude of 10 metres at terminal phase and pin-point accuracy, and is expected to make the frigates of the Indian Navy more deadly. This missile has been in with the Indian Navy since 2005.
At Saturday’s meeting the DAC gave approval for acquisition of defence equipment worth Rs 3000 crore, these include the BrahMos missiles for the Indian Navy frigates.
The indigenously designed BrahMos missile an Indo-Russian joint venture is a tested and a proven supersonic cruise missile and will form the primary weapon on board these vessels.
Recently, deal for the Grigorovich-class ‘Project 1135.6’ frigates, between Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) and the Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport was inked in New Delhi for two frigates which will be built at Yantar shipyard, Kaliningrad in Russia, at a cost of $ one billion ($ 500 million each).
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