Welcome INS Karanj

Recently India received its 3^rd Scorpion submarine, under the project PROJECT-75 named INS KARANJ. The historic induction of INS KARANJ was attended by Naval Chief Admiral Sunil Lamba and his wife did the inaugural. A total of 6 submarines are to be delivered under the project-75 and INS karanj is the 3^rd one. The first among the six was INS Kalvari which was scheduled to be commissioned before 2012, but due to some unknown reasons, it was commissioned late on December 2017. Next comes the INS Kandheri, which was commissioned in the Indian Navy on the staring week of January and now on 31^st of Jan, we have INS Karanj which is earlier scheduled to be commissioned in the Indian Navy in 2012.

One interesting fact about all the six Submarines is that the first four of them will not have any “AIR PROPULSION SYSTEM” whereas the rest two will be equipped with an Air Propulsion System. Air Propulsion system basically enhances the capacity of a submarine to stay under water for months.

There is a word called “Scorpion Submarine”. Well, scorpion is a class and more specifically a conventional diesel-electric attack submarine weight about 1,600 tonnes.

PROJECT-75

Project-75 or P-75 is an Indians project worth Rs 70,000 crore for the indigenously manufacturing of stealth submarines. The deal is already late by six years and was supposed to deliver all the six submarines by 2018 which now has extended to 2022.

P-75 was approved in 2005 and according to the schedule; the first of the six submarines was scheduled to be delivered to the Navy by 2012.

The ambitious P-75 comes under the guidance of MDL (Mazagon Dock Shipbuilder LTD).

About INS Karanj

As it was mentioned earlier, it’s a diesel electric submarine and a non-Nuclear submarine. The basic difference between a nuclear and a conventional submarine is that the nuclear submarines are powered by a nuclear reactor while the diesel one is by electric engines. There is another difference between the two i.e. the nuclear submarine can stay longer under the water as compared to the conventional one.

INS Karanj can carry 18 torpedoes and can travel 1,020Km underwater. The 66 meter submarine can dive up to a depth of 300 meter to elude enemy detection.

Another interesting fact about the INS karanj is that, the previous INS Karanj served the nation for 34 years (1969-2003) and had also participated in the 1971 war.

The name of all the six submarines is:

1.     INS KALVARI

2.     INS KANDHERI

3.     INS KARANJ

4.     INS VELA

5.     INS VAGIR

6.     INS VAGSHEER