INS Beas (F37)

History
INS Beas departing Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, 20 June 2009.
India
Name:	INS Beas
Namesake:	River Beas
Builder:	Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, India
Commissioned:	11 July 2005
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Brahmaputra-class frigate
Displacement:	3,850 tons
Length:	126.4 m (414 ft 8 in)
Beam:	14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	2 steam turbines delivering 22,370 kW (30,000 shp) to two shafts
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)+
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi)
Complement:	440 to 450 (Including 40 Officers + 13 aircrew)
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar BEL RAWS-03 air/surface search radar BEL/Signaal RAWL-02 (PLN 517) air search radar Decca Bridgemaster/BEL Rashmi PIN 524 navigation radar Sonar BEL HUMSA (Hull Mounted Sonar Array) Thales Sintra towed array sonar Fire control BEL Aparna radar (Kh-35 SSM) Elta EL/M-2221 radar (Barak SAM) BEL Shikari opto-electronic trackers (guns)
Electronic warfare & decoys:	BEL Ajanta Mk.2C Electronic Warfare system ELLORA Electronic Support Measures system BEL Radar Warning Receiver Suite Countermeasures 2 × chaff/flare launcher Super Barricade chaff launcher 2 × Graesby G738 or BEL TOTED towed torpedo decoy
Armament:	16 × Kh-35 (SS-N-25 Switchblade) SSM (4 x quadruple KT-184 launchers) 24 × Barak SAM (3 x octuple VLS units) 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun 4 × AK-630 6-barreled 30 mm gatling gun 2 × RBU-6000 213 mm anti-submarine rocket launcher 2 × triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes (Whitehead A244S anti-submarine torpedoes)
Aircraft carried:	1 Sea King, 1 Match Helos

INS Beas (F37) is a Brahmaputra-class frigate of the Indian Navy. She was built at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkatta.

The design and construction of the ship is entirely Indian, and is a modification of the Godavari-class frigate.^[1] She is fitted with an array of modern sensor suites and matching weapon systems.

Beas is named for the River Beas. She is the second ship in the Indian Navy to bear the name. The first was a Leopard-class frigate commissioned in 1960 and scrapped in 1992.

Operations

Task Force Europe 2009

During May–July 2009, Beas was a part of the Indian Navy task force on deployment to Europe. During this deployment, the task force participated in joint-exercises with the Royal Navy and the French Navy. Exercise Konkan-09 with the Royal Navy, was conducted off the coast of the United Kingdom.^[2] Exercise Varuna 2009 with the French Navy was off the coast of France.^[3]

References

↑ "Type 16A Brahmaputra class". Bharat rakshak page on Brahmaputra class frigate. 2007-05-05. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
↑ http://indiannavy.nic.in/Press090612.htm
↑ http://indiannavy.nic.in/Press090615.htm

INS Beas F37 departing Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, 20 June 2009.

Brahmaputra-class frigates

Brahmaputra Beas Betwa

Preceded by: Godavari class Followed by: Talwar class

List of frigates of the Indian Navy

Frigates of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

Shivalik class	Shivalik Satpura Sahyadri

Talwar class	Talwar (F40) Trishul (F43) Tabar Teg Tarkash Trikand

Brahmaputra class	Brahmaputra (F31) Betwa (F39) Beas (F37)

Godavari class	Ganga Gomati

Decommissioned ships

Frigates

River class	HMIS Tamar HMIS Neza HMIS Dhanush^{[lower-alpha 1]} HMIS Shamsher^{[lower-alpha 2]} HMIS Kukri^{[lower-alpha 3]} HMIS Bengal^{[lower-alpha 4]} HMIS Hooghly^{[lower-alpha 5]} HMIS Tir^{[lower-alpha 6]}

Blackwood class	Khukri Kirpan^{[lower-alpha 7]} Kuthar^{[lower-alpha 8]}

Whitby class	Talwar (F140) Trishul (F143)

Leopard class	Brahmaputra (1958) Beas (1960) Betwa (1960)

Nilgiri class	Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Vindhyagiri Taragiri

Leander class	Krishna

Godavari class	Godavari

Sloops
(later reclassified
as frigates)

Anchusa class	HMIS Elphinstone

P class	HMIS Baluchi HMIS Pathan

Grimsby class	HMIS Indus

Aubretia class	HMIS Cornwallis

Black Swan class	HMIS Narbada^{[lower-alpha 9]} HMIS Godaveri^{[lower-alpha 10]} HMIS Cauvery^{[lower-alpha 11]} HMIS Sutlej^{[lower-alpha 12]} HMIS Jumna^{[lower-alpha 13]} HMIS Kistna^{[lower-alpha 14]}

Hastings class	HMIS Hindustan^{[lower-alpha 15]}

Other sloops	HMIS Clive HMIS Lawrence

Future ships

Project 17A class	7 ships planned (Names to be declared)

Footnotes

↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Dhanush.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Shamsher.
↑ Renamed as INS Kukri post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Hooghly post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Tir post republic.
↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Jhelum.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Sind.
↑ Renamed as INS Kaveri post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Sutlej post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Jumuna post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Krisna post republic.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Karsaz.

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