Rajput class destroyer.

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john sefton
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Rajput class destroyer.

Post by john sefton » Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:03 pm

The Kashin class destroyers were a group of guided missile destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Their Soviet designation was Project 61. As of 2007, one ship is in service with the Russian Navy, and five modified ships are in service with the Indian Navy as Rajput-class destroyers.
In the USSR they were officially classified as "guard ships" (storozhevoi korabl - SKR), then "large ASW ships" (BPK) or "large missile ships" (BRK), but in the rest of world they are commonly regarded as missile destroyers due to their size and armament. They were the first Soviet purpose-built anti-air warfare ships and the first to carry an ASW helicopter.
The design specification was approved in 1957; the first ship was laid down in 1959 and commissioned in 1962. Much new equipment was developed for these ships, including surface-to-air missiles, radars and gas turbine engines. The gas turbines were arranged in two separate spaces and could be removed via the funnels for servicing. These were also the first Soviet ships designed to be closed down for nuclear fallout and had an operations room deep inside the ship rather than a large bridge.
Six ships were modernised in the 1970s as the Project 61M or 61MP (Kashin-Mod), by being fitted with four SS-N-2C Styx anti-ship missiles, new towed-array sonar, a raised helipad and four close range AK-630 Gatling guns. The two RBU-1000 ASW rocket launchers were mounted aft, but later removed.
The Smetlivy was modernised (mk01090) in Mykolaiv in the early 1990s and fitted with new Kh-35 (SS-N-25 Switchblade, Harpoonski) anti-ship missiles and MNK-300 sonar. She is the only Kashin currently active in the Russian Navy.
The Rajput class modification built for Indian Navy has the after gun turret replaced by a hangar for a helicopter, as well as SS-N-2C anti-ship missiles on the sides of the bridge.
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Re: Rajput class destroyer.

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:46 pm

The warship INS RAJPUT (D51) depict in the margin of the miniature sheet has nothing to do with the sinking of the PNS GHAZI.

The vessel which (possible) sank the PNS GHAZI was the INS RAJPUT (D141) the ex HMS ROTHERHAM.
HMS ROTHERHAM was sold to India in 1948 and formally transferred to the Indian Navy on 27 July 1949 as INS RAJPUT (D141). She saw active service during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. India maintains the RAJPUT was responsible for sinking the Pakistan Navy submarine GHAZI, though Pakistan contests this, contending the submarine was sunk by the accidental detonation of one or more of the laid or about-to-be-laid mines the ship was carrying. RAJPUT remained an active fleet unit until 1976 when she was placed on the Disposal List and then scrapped.

2020 INS RAJPUT (D51) in active service.

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