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The Indian Navy's second Kolkata-class destroyer Kochi enters service on September 30 in Mumbai. Ahead of that day, here's the first official literature on the ship, made available exclusively to Livefist.

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This is great news.

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USNI said:
The four ballistic missile defense destroyers patrolling 6th Fleet will get a self-protection upgrade beginning this year, as the Navy integrates Raytheon’s Sea Rolling Airframe Missile (SeaRAM) onto its Aegis-equipped Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51) for the first time.

U.S. 6th Fleet leadership sent an urgent requirement for self-protection on the four ships, which focus all their energy on the BMD mission, Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Rear Adm. Jon Hill said last week at an American Society of Naval Engineers event.

“We put [the ships] out there by themselves, and they’re putting all their radar energy up in space, they’re tracking space objects now, and you have to wonder, hey, can they defend themselves?” he said. After toying with the idea of putting a second ship nearby to protect the BMD destroyer – much like a cruiser protecting an aircraft carrier – the Navy decided the SeaRAM could fill the self-protection requirement even though the system had never been paired with an Aegis ship before.

“What we had to do was really develop software, make sure we had the equipment ready to roll, get the computer programs aligned,” Hill told USNI News after the event.

“And the big thing you have to worry about is fratricide – so where you put that mount on the ship, it’s looking right over the vertical launching system, so what you don’t want to have happen is you’re shooting something with the SeaRAM while missiles are coming out of the VLS. So that’s the fundamental bit of integration we have to do.”

Hill added there were no extra SeaRAM systems lying around, so he pulled equipment from a foreign military sales program to allow for the quickest installation possible. He said the Navy also leveraged testing done by other programs to help speed up the process of integrating SeaRAM onto a new class of ships.

According to a February reprogramming request by the Pentagon comptroller, the Navy requested $15.3 million in Fiscal Year 2015 to get started on filling the urgent need, to be followed by additional funding in FY 2016. That money will help “capitaliz[e] on factory flexibility to work an extra shift,” minimizing the delay to the FMS contract.

USS Porter (DDG-78) and USS Carney (DDG-64), which arrived in Spain this year, will undergo selected restricted availabilities in fiscal year 2016 and will receive the SeaRAM upgrade then. Hill said Porter should be through maintenance and back on station by about November.

USS Ross (DDG-71) and USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) will have availabilities in FY 2017 and will receive SeaRAM then.

Hill said the level of integration between SeaRAM and Aegis Combat System would improve as they learn more with each ship.

“We’re pretty excited about it. It’s a great missile system, it’s a great radar system, it gives them an extra layer of capability they don’t have today,” he said.

As currently configured, the four Rota destroyers are equipped with an older Aegis baseline that requires the ship to operate in a BMD mode or switch to the traditional aircraft and cruise missile defense role. The Navy’s new Baseline 9 ships can do both missions at the same time,
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SeaRAM is a combination of Raytheon’s Phalanx Close-In Weapon System and Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Weapon System.

“An 11-missile RAM launcher assembly replaces Phalanx’s 20 mm gun. SeaRAM combines RAM’s superior accuracy, extended range and high maneuverability with the Phalanx Block 1B’s high resolution search-and-track sensor systems and reliable quick-response capability,” according to Raytheon’s website.

Hill said this extra fire power is important to the surface warfare community’s new
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y if each ship, regardless of its mission, is upgunned, a potential opponent cannot overlook any ship in the fleet when calculating its next move. Hill said distributed lethality brings the emphasis back from defensive to offensive operations – which would be true of the four destroyers, who could now go after an enemy ship if needed rather than stay focused on the BMD mission solely.

They are starting with the four Rota, Spain, forward deployed Burkes. I hhope they extend this upgrade to many more.

I would rather see them keep the on Phalanx and add the SeaRAM as an additional defensive measure as opposed to replacing.
 

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The Kolkatas and their follow-on sister ships are GREAT vessels and will be excellent and much needed escorts for their carriers and other high value vessels.

But the problem with the Kolkatas and their Project 15B follow-on ships IMHO is that they only have the 32 VLS dedicated to Barak 8.

I would have thought 48 for a total of 64 VLS (including the 16 dedicated ASuW cells).
 

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But the problem with the Kolkatas and their Project 15B follow-on ships IMHO is that they only have the 32 VLS dedicated to Barak 8.

I would have thought 48 for a total of 64 VLS (including the 16 dedicated ASuW cells).


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The Indo-Israeli LRSAM/Barak-8 began its first hot trials with the Israeli Navy in May this year. In what could be the single most significant development in the weapon system's long-drawn journey, the Indian Navy has confirmed to Livefist that the LRSAM will sport an operational range a third higher than initially agreed upon. In effect, the LRSAM's range now
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to in excess of 90-km or higher. Range upgrade discussions took place in November last year following
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IAI and India's DRDO missile cluster (led by the DRDL) that have jointly developed the missile system, designated the Barak 8 for Israel and yet to be officially named in India, have begun work on boosting weapon range.

With preliminary integration activity already on, Livefist can also confirm that the LRSAM is all set to undergo its first test firing from Indian Navy destroyer INS Kolkata in November-December this year in the Arabian Sea. The weapon system is intended for a host of frontline surface combatants, including all future fighting ships of the Indian Navy.

Top Navy officials tell Livefist that while the 2nd Kolkata-class destroyer Kochi
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on September 30, like the first ship of its class, sports a
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, the contracted active towed array sonar will be integrated within the next 16-18 months.
 

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Naval warship INS Kochi, the largest-ever warship to be built in India, was commissioned by defence minister Manohar Parrikar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

Finish of the INS Kochi is good as any foreign ship, Manohar Parrikar said.

"Jahi Shatrun Mahabaho" loosely means "Armed to conquer the enemy" in Sanskrit. It's an apt motto for guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi, packed with weapons and sensors as well as advanced stealth features.
Destroyers are second only to aircraft carriers in projecting raw combat power on the high seas. Induction of the 7,500-tonne INS Kochi, the second of the three Kolkata-class destroyers being built at Mazagaon Docks (MDL) at Mumbai for over Rs 4,000 crore apiece, will make it the 10th destroyer in India's combat fleet.

The first of this class, INS Kolkata, was commissioned in August last year, while the third INS Chennai will be inducted towards end-2016. There is also the even bigger ongoing Rs 29,644-crore project to build another four stealth destroyers at MDL, with the first INS Visakhapatnam slated for delivery in 2018-2019.

It's no wonder the Navy is all excited. "INS Kochi will add more teeth to the Indian Navy's sword arm in discharging our duty of safe-guarding maritime interests in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). It further reaffirms our resolve and faith in indigenous ship-building and the 'Make in India' programme," said Admiral Robin Dhowan on Monday.

The Navy, on its part, has plans to become a 200-warship force with around 600 aircraft and helicopters by 2027 to ensure it can effectively guard the country's expanding geo-strategic interests in the backdrop of the IOR emerging as "the world's centre of gravity".

The IOR has over 120 warships at any given time, with China fast becoming a force to reckon with in the region. China is expanding its naval footprint mainly to safeguard its energy supplies passing through the IOR but India can ill-afford to ignore its strategic moves.

"We have to be on guard. India's developmental destiny is strongly linked to the seas around us. While we do not want competition with China to turn into conflict in IOR, we have to be ready and keep our powder dry," said another senior officer.

But while the Navy is doing well with "surface combatants", the acute shortage of submarines, helicopters and minesweepers continues to remain a big worry. Take submarines, for instance. The Navy has just 13 old conventional diesel-electric submarines and one nuclear-powered boat on lease from Russia.

This when China already has five nuclear and 51 conventional submarines in its underwater fleet, apart from being close to inducting five new JIN-class nuclear submarines armed with long-range ballistic missiles. Pakistan, too, has recently ordered eight more conventional submarines from China to add to the five it already has.

But the defence ministry is still nowhere close to issuing the tender for Project-75-India to build six advanced submarines, with both land-attack cruise missiles and air-independent propulsion for greater underwater endurance, at a cost of around Rs 80,000 crore. It will take at least 10 years for the first of these new submarines to roll out.

The ongoing Rs 23,562 crore project to construct six French Scorpene submarines at MDL is also running over four years behind schedule, with the first boat to be now delivered by September 2016 at the earliest. Moreover, the government is still to resolve the imbroglio over the proposed Rs 1,800 crore deal to buy 98 heavy-weight torpedoes for the Scorpenes."Jahi Shatrun Mahabaho" loosely means "Armed to conquer the enemy" in Sanskrit. It's an apt motto for guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi, packed with weapons and sensors as well as advanced stealth features.
 
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