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Naval Ensign of the Indian Navy. List of active Indian Navy ships is a list of ships in active service with the Indian Navy. In service ships are taken from the official Indian Navy website.[1] The Indian Navy is one of the largest navies in the world,[2] and as of 2014 possesses two aircraft carriers, one amphibious transport dock, 9 Landing ship tanks, 9 , 15 , one nuclear-powered attack submarine, 14 conventionally-powered attack submarines, 25 corvettes, 7 mine countermeasure vessels, 10 large offshore patrol vessels, 4 fleet tankers and various auxiliary vessels and small patrol boats. For ships no longer in service see List of ships of the Indian Navy and for future ships of Indian navy see Future ships of the Indian Navy Besides the following navy ships, the operates around 90 - 100 armed patrol ships of various sizes. Contents • 1 Submarine fleet o 1.1 Nuclear-powered submarines

o 1.2 Conventionally-powered submarines

• 2 Surface fleet

o 2.1 Aircraft carriers

o 2.2 Amphibious warfare ships

o 2.3 Destroyers and frigates

o 2.4 Corvettes

o 2.5 Mine countermeasure vessels

o 2.6 Patrol vessels

• 3 Auxiliary fleet o 3.1 Replenishment ships

o 3.2 Support ships o 3.3 Research and survey vessels

o 3.4 Training vessels

o 3.5 Tugboats

o 3.6 Miscellaneous

• 4 See also

• 5 Notes • 6 References

• 7 External links

Submarine fleet Nuclear-powered submarines

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Nuclear-powered submarines (1 in Service)

Chakr INS Under a 10 a a Attack Chakr Russi 12,770 year lease (Akula submari a a tonnes from Russia II)- ne (SSN) (S71) since 2012. class

Undergoing Ballistic sea trials, INS Missile 6,000 expected to Arihan Ariha submari tonnes, be t t -class nt ne surfaced commission (S73) (SSBN) ed by 2014-2015. Conventionally-powered submarines

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Conventionally-powered submarines (14 in Service) S63 Sindhurak shak exploded INS and sank Sindhugh on the 14 osh (S55) August INS 2013. Sindhudh Officials vaj (S56) say it is INS "highly Sindhuraj unlikely" (S57) she will INS return to Sindhuvir active (S58) service,[3] INS but the Sindhurat final na na (S59) Sovie Attack decision Sindhugh INS t Union 3,076 submar will be osh -class Sindhuke Russi tonnes ine made only sari (S60) a after the INS boat is re- Sindhukirt floated i i (S61) and INS inspected. Sindhuvij [4][5] ay ay (S62) INS S61 Sindhurak Sindhukirt shak i is (S63) currently INS under re- Sindhush fit and is astra scheduled (S65) to re-join the fleet on 31 March 2015.[6] INS Shishuma r r (S44) To be INS armed Attack Shankush with Shishum Germ 1,850 submar (S45) Harpoon ar ar -class any tonnes ine INS Shalki Block-II (S46) anti-ship INS missiles[7] Shankul (S47) Surface fleet Aircraft carriers

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Aircraft carriers (2 in service)

STOVL carrier. Scheduled to Aircra Centa Unit be ft INS Viraat 28,700 ur ur - ed decommissio carrie (R22) tonnes class Kingdom ned by 2018 r and replaced by INS Vikrant.[8]

Aircra Modifie INS ft Russ 45,400 STOBAR d d Kiev - Vikramadi carrie ia tonnes carrier. class tya (R33) r

Amphibious warfare ships Note: In addition, the Indian Navy maintains a number of smaller landing craft that operate from and in conjunction with these vessels below. They serve to transport troops and equipment from ship to shore during an amphibious operation.

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Amphibious warfare ships (1 in Service) Under terms of sale, Jalashwa cannot be used during a Amphibio war or INS us offensive Austin - Jalash Unite 16,590 transport operation class wa d States tonnes dock , unless (L41) (LPD) such action is granted by the United States Pentagon .[9]

Landing ships (9 in Service)

INS Shardu l l (L16) Landing INS Shardu 5,600 ship tank Kesari India l l -class tonnes[10] (LST) (L15) INS Airavat (L24)

INS Magar Landing Magar - (L20) 5,655 ship tank India class INS tonnes[11] (LST) Gharial (L23) INS Cheeta h h (L18) Two INS larger Mahish Landing ships in Kumbh (L19) Polan 1,100 ship tank the ir ir -class INS d tonnes (LST) center as Guldar seen in (L21) picture. INS Kumbh ir ir (L22)

Large Landing Craft Utility (6 in Service)

INS LCU 33 (L33) INS LCU 35 (L35) INS LCU 36 Landing Outer two (L36) LCT Craft 640 tonnes ships as INS India Mk.3 Utility [13] seen in LCU 37 (LCU) picture. (L37) INS LCU 38 (L38) INS LCU 39 (L39) [12]

Destroyers and frigates

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Destroyers and frigates (24 in service)

Kolkata - Stealth INS Indi 7,500 Two more class Guided Kolkata a tonnes [14] ships INS missile (D63) [15] Kochi and destro INS yer Chennai to be commissio ned.

INS Delhi (D61) Guided INS Delhi - missile Mysore Indi 6,700 class destro (D60) a tonnes yer INS (D62)

INS Rajput Built, in (D51) the Soviet INS Rana Union, to (D52) Indian Sovi Guided INS Ranjit design et Rajput - missile (D53) 4,974 modificatio Union class destro INS tonnes ns of the Indi yer Ranvir Soviet a (D54) Kashin INS class Ranvijay destroyers (D55) design.

INS Shivalik (F47) Multi- INS Shivalik - role Indi 6,200 Satpura class stealth a tonnes (F48) INS Sahyadri (F49)

Talwar - Multi- INS Rus 4,035 class role Talwar sia tonnes stealth (F40) frigate INS Trishul (F43) INS Tabar (F44) INS Teg (F45) INS Tarkash (F50) INS Trikand (F51)

INS Brahmap utra (F31) Guided Brahmapu INS Indi 3,850 missile tra tra -class Betwa a tonnes frigate (F39) INS Beas (F37)

INS Godavari (F20) Guided INS Godavari - Indi 3,850 missile Ganga class a tonnes frigate (F22) INS Gomati (F21) Corvettes

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Corvettes (25 in Service)

Three more ships INS Kadmatt, Stealth INS 3,500 INS Kiltan, Kamort ASW Kamor India tonnes [16] INS a a -class Corvet ta [17] Kavaratti to te (P28) be commission ed.

Kora - Corvet INS India 1,350 class te Kora tonnes (P61) INS Kirch (P62) INS Kulish (P63) INS Karmu k k (P64)

INS Khukri (P49) INS Kuthar Khukri - Corvet (P46) 1,350 India class te INS tonnes Kirpan (P44) INS Khanja r r (P47)

Veer - Corvet INS India 455 tonnes Customized class te Veer Sovi Indian (light) (K40) et Union variant of INS the Soviet Nirbhi Tarantul k k (K41) class. INS Nipat (K42) INS Nishan k k (K43) INS Nirgha t t (K44) INS Vibhuti (K45) INS Vipul (K46) INS Vinash (K47) INS Vidyut (K48) INS Nasha k k (K83) INS Prabal (K92) INS Pralay a a (K91)

INS Abhay (P33) INS Customized Ajay Indian Corvet India Abhay - (P34) variants of te Sovi 485 tonnes class INS the Soviet (light) et Union Aksha Pauk class y y (P35) corvettes. INS Agray (P36) Mine countermeasure vessels

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Mine countermeasure vessels (7 in Service)

INS Alleppey (M65) INS Karwar (M67) INS Cannan ore (M68) Pondicher Minesweep INS Sovi 891 tonnes ry ry -class er Cuddalo et Union re (M69) INS Kakinad a (M70) INS Kozhiko de (M71) INS Konkan (M72)