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8<br />
COVER STORY<br />
KPCL Makes Waves<br />
in the Marine Sector<br />
• INS Shivalik, the first indigenously built frigate class stealth warship<br />
was commissioned on 29th April, 2010, in the Indian Navy. Defence<br />
Minister A K Antony inducted the frigate in a ceremony held at Mazgon<br />
Docks, Mumbai. INS Shivalik is first of three ship<br />
Project -17 frigates.<br />
The 143 meter-long warship, with 6,000 tonnes<br />
displacement, has “versatile control systems with<br />
signature management and radar cross-section<br />
reduction features.” Commissioning of the Shivalik<br />
has brought India in the league of those few who<br />
have capability to build stealth warships. Other<br />
countries having similar capacity are the USA, the<br />
UK, Russia, France, China, Japan and Italy.<br />
It’s a ship that is designed to escape detection by<br />
normal radars and surveillance equipment. Special<br />
aerodynamics,<br />
equipment and<br />
material used in<br />
designing and<br />
building these<br />
ships make it very<br />
difficult to monitor<br />
their movements.<br />
That’s why they<br />
are called ‘stealth<br />
frigates.’ Shivalik<br />
class warships<br />
can deal with multiple threat environment and are fitted with weapon<br />
suite comprising both area and point defence systems. It has sensors<br />
for air, surface and subsurface surveillance, electronic support and<br />
counter equipment and decoys for ‘soft kill measures’.<br />
The MDL is building two other warships in this Shivalik series to be<br />
named INS Sayahdri and INS Satpura which will be commissioned<br />
by the end of this year and middle of next year respectively under<br />
Project-17.<br />
Each of these frigates is equipped with six 144 TR Air Conditioning and two 2.1 TR<br />
Refrigeration Plants supplied by KPCL. As a part of commissioning activity, a three<br />
day training program was arranged for the crew of INS Shivalik at our Hadapsar<br />
and Saswad works. The program, which covered design specifications, working<br />
of the plant, operational and maintenance aspects and trouble shooting, was well<br />
appreciated by the delegates.<br />
• KPCL has supplied seven 2400 kW air conditioning plants for the prestigious<br />
P71 project of the Indian Navy <strong>–</strong> Indigenous Aircraft Carrier being built at Cochin<br />
Shipyard Limited. All plants were tested for full load performance including noise<br />
and vibration trials before dispatch.<br />
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