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The Department of Defence Production of the Ministry of Defence is responsible for the indigenous production of equipment used by the Indian Navy and the other armed forces. It comprises the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories under control of the Ordnance Factories Board and eight Defence PSUs: HAL, BEL, BEML, BDL, MDL, GSL, GRSE and Midhani. The present weapon systems of the Indian Navy are:
Ballistic Missile edit
Submarine-launched edit
- Sagarika SLBM
- K4 SLBM (In production)[1][2]
- K-5 SLBM (Under development)[3]
- K-6 SLBM (Under development)[4]
Ship launched edit
Cruise/anti-ship missiles edit
- BrahMos Hypersonic Cruise Missile (Under development)
- BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile
- 3M-54E/3M-14E Klub Anti-Ship/Land Attack Cruise Missile (SS-N-27 Sizzler)
- Kh-35 (SS-N-25 SwitchBlade)
- P-20 (SS-N-2D Styx)
- Sea Eagle missile
- Harpoon (missile)
- Exocet missile (Used by Kalvari class)
- Rampage (missile)
- NASM-SR(Under development)
- NASM-MR(Under development)
Air to air missiles edit
Surface to air missiles edit
Torpedoes edit
- Whitehead A244-S anti-submarine torpedo
- APR-3E torpedo
- CET-65E torpedo
- Type 53-65KE torpedo (passive wake homing)
- TEST 71/76 anti-submarine, active and passive homing torpedo
- AEG-SUT Mod-1 wire-guided, active/passive homing torpedo
- DM2A4 Seahake torpedo
- Advanced Light Torpedo Shyena
- Varunastra
- Takshak (under development)[5]
Main guns edit
- A-190(E) 100mm
- 100mm AK-100 naval gun
- AK-176-M 76mm gun
- AK-76/62 76mm gun
- Twin mount gun (76mm)
- OTO Melara Otobreda 76 mm gun
- Bofors 40mm/57mm/60mm guns
- Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
- CRN-91 30 mm cannon (for patrol boats)
Air defence guns edit
- AK-630 six-barreled 30 mm Gatling gun
- AK-230 twin 30 mm gun
- CADS-N-1 Kashtan
ASW rocket launchers edit
- RBU-6000
- RBU-6000 (RPK-8)
- RBU-12000 (UDAV-1)
- RBU-1000
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Arihant's N-capable missile 'ready to roll'". The Times of India. 14 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ Peri, Dinakar (19 January 2020). "India successfully test-fires 3,500-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile K-4". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "India plans 5,000-km range submarine-launched ballistic missile". Hindustan Times. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ "DRDO on long range Pralay, K5 to stalemate China soon". The New Indian Express. 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ SUBRAMANIAN, T. S. "Underwater might". Frontline. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
External links edit
- Mines and rockets[usurped]
- Indian Navy at Bharat-rakshak.com