Military Wiki
INS Shalki (S46)
Career Naval Ensign of India
Name: INS Shalki
Builder: Mazagon Dock Limited
Commissioned: 7 February 1992[1]
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Shishumar class submarine
Displacement: 1450 tons surfaced
1850 tons submerged
Length: 64.4 m (211 ft)
Beam: 6.5 m (21 ft)
Draught: 6 m (20 ft)
Propulsion: 4 x 2400 hp diesel-electric motors
1 x Siemens 4600 hp motor
4 x 1.8 MW Siemens alternators
1 shaft
Speed: Surfaced 11 knots (20 km/h)
Submerged 22 knots (41 km/h)
Range: Snorting 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h)
Test depth: Test depth 260 m (850 ft)
Complement: 40 (incl 8 Officers)
Armament: 14 x AEG-SUT Mod 1 wire-guided active/passive torpedoes
24 x external strap-on mines

INS Shalki (S46) is a Shishumar-class diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy.[2] The submarine was the first ever submarine to be built in India. It was launched in 1987 by the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

References[]


All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at INS Shalki (S46) and the edit history here.

INS Shalki was the first indigenously developed submarine of India....