INS Rajput (D51)

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Career	Indian Navy
Commissioned:	30 September 1980
Fate:	Active
General characteristics
Displacement:	5000 Ton
Length:	147 m
Beam:	15.8 m
Draught:	5 m
Speed:	35 Knots
Range:	4000 miles
Complement:	320 (Including 35 Officers)
Armament:	4 Brahmos
Aircraft carried:	1 Ka-28 helicopter

INS Rajput (D51) is the lead ship of the Rajput Class destroyers of the Indian Navy was commissioned on September 30, 1980. INS Rajput serves as a trial platform for the BrahMos cruise missile. The 4 P-20M single launchers (port and starboard) have been replaced by two boxed launchers. Each box has 4 cells. A new variant of the Prithvi-III missile was test fired from the ship in March 2007.^[1] The ship is capable of hitting land targets with the Brahmos land attack cruise missile. The missile fired from the ship destroys the right target from a group of targets demonstrating precision hit capability.^[2]

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• RAJPUT {KASHIN II} CLASS & Bharat Rakshak].
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