SAIL’s DMR 249A Steel Used for Building Taragiri Frigate

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Project 17A’s third vessel Taragiri will be launched on 11 September 2022, built using integrated construction methodology. The 149.02 meters long and 17.8 meters wide vessel, powered by two gas turbines, weighs approximately 6,670 tonnes with displacement. Its speed will exceed 28 knots. The indigenously designed stealth frigate will have state-of-the-art weapons, sensors, advanced information systems, integrated platform management systems, world-class modular accommodations, sophisticated power distribution systems and many other advanced features. It will be equipped with a surface-to-surface supersonic missile system. Also on board will be two 30 mm rapid-fire guns which will provide the ship with close-in-defence capability.The steel used in the floor construction of P17A frigate is indigenously developed DMR 249A which is a low carbon micro alloy grade steel manufactured by Steel Authority of India Limited. The ship has been designed by Indian Navy’s Bureau of Naval Design and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders is carrying out detailed design and construction work, which is overseen by Warship Building TeamThe keel of Taragiri was laid on 10 September 2020 and is expected to be inducted into the Indian Navy by August 2025.The new vessel is a tribute to decommissioned INS Taragiri F41 was a Nilgiri-class frigate of the Indian Navy. Taragiri was commissioned into the Navy on 16 May 1980 and was decommissioned on 27 June 2013 in Mumbai, after serving 33 years in the navy. INS Taragiri was the final ship of the Nilgiri class, and was named after a hill range in the Garhwal Himalaya.

SAIL’s DMR 249A Steel Used for Building Taragiri Frigate

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