INS Rana (D52)

INS Rana leads the passing exercise formation
History
India
Name:	INS Rana
Builder:	61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
Commissioned:	28 June 1982
Homeport:	Visakhapatnam
Identification:	Pennant number: D52
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Rajput-class destroyer
Displacement:	3,950 tons standard, 4,974 tons full load
Length:	147 m (482 ft)
Beam:	15.8 m (52 ft)
Draught:	5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion:	4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 72,000 hp (54,000 kW)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	4,000 miles (6,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) 2,600 miles (4,200 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	320 (including 35 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	Navigation: 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency, Air: 1 x MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band or 1 x Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar at D-band (installed on INS Ranjit), Air/Surface: 1 x MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band, replaced by 1 x EL/M-2238 STAR Communication: Inmarsat, Sonar: 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar replaced with Bharat HUMSA during MLR, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar
Armament:	Anti-surface: 4 × SS-N-2D Styx AShM missiles Air-defence: 2 × S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM launchers Guns: 1 × 76.2 mm main gun, 4 × 30 mm AK-230 CIWS Anti-submarine: 1 × 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launcher, 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine mortars,
Aircraft carried:	1 x HAL Chetak helicopter

INS Rana is a Rajput-class destroyer in active service with the Indian Navy. She was commissioned on 28 June 1982.

She is a redesigned Soviet Kashin-class guided missile destroyer.

INS Rana serves in the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy. Her home port is Visakhapatnam.

With Ranjit, she made a call at Qingdao Port, PRC in mid-April 2007.

In April 2008, she visited Bangkok, Thailand with Kirpan. Later that month she visited Manila, Philippines.

On 5 and 6 June 2010, she made a friendly visit to Fremantle, Australia to enhance bilateral cooperation between the Indian and Australian navies.

The ships, as part of a battle group of 4 ships began a sustained operational deployment to the South China Sea and the North West Pacific Ocean. the other three ships were Shakti, a Deepak-class fleet tanker, Shivalik, a stealth frigate, and Karmuk, a Kora-class corvette. This battle group was under the command of Rear Admiral P Ajit Kumar, Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Naval Command. According to the Ministry of Defence, the two-month deployment, far from India's usual area of operations, along with naval exercises with a number of countries, aimed to demonstrate the Indian navy's operational reach.