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R 22 Viraat

Specifications
DisplacementStandard - 22,000-23,900
Full Load - 28,700
Length 226.9 m / 226.5 m (743 ft) / 737 ft. (224.6 m)
Beam, waterline 130 ft. (39.6 m)
Width, overall 48.8 m (160.0 ft)
Draft 8.7 m / 28.5 ft.
Propulsion
  • 2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines,
  • 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers with 400 psi
    • Installed power76,000 shp (57,000 kW)/ 78,000 hp (58,000 kW)
    Speed 28 kts (52 km/h)
    Range 7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
    6,500 mi (10,500 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
    Sensors
  • 1 x BEL/Signaal RAWL 02 air radar
  • 1 x RAWS 08 air/surface radar
  • 2 x BEL Rashmi navigation radars
  • 1 x EL/M-2221 STGR fire control radar
  • 1 x Plessey Type 904 radar
  • 1 x FT 13-S/M Tacan system
    • Sonar
  • 1 x Graseby Type 184M hull-mounted sonar
    • Electronic warfare & decoys
  • 1 x BEL Ajanta ESM
  • 2 x Knebworth Corvus chaff launchers
    • Missiles
  • 2 x Short Secat SAM quad launchers [early]
  • 16 x Barak SAM VL cells [later]
    • Torpedoes 8 torpedoes
    AA Guns 6 x 30 mm AD guns, or
  • 2 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns
  • 2 x twin AK-230 CIWS
    • Armor 1.2-inch flight deck, Hangar deck
    Aircraft 30 Sea Harriers FRS Mk 5
    7 x Sea King Mk 42 B/C or Ka-25

    or
    16 x British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS51
    4 x Westland Sea King Mk.42B-C
    2 x HAL Chetak
    4 x HAL Dhruv
    Crew 43 Officers
    1307 Enlisted
    Maximum 2,100 including carrier air wing
    1,207 ship's crew,
    143 air crew



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