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Warships2025 – present
Guided-missile frigate
Nilgiri-class frigate (2019) is a guided-missile frigate. It was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders. Reported operators include Indian Navy.
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Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
Indian Navy
Shivalik class
Project 17B class
₹ 4,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 47 billion or US$490 million in 2023) per frigate (Estimated) ₹ 45,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 530 billion or US$5.5 billion in 2023) (Total deal)
2017 – 2026
2025 – present
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Guided-missile frigate
6,670 t (6,560 long tons )
149 m (488 ft 10 in)
17.8 m (58 ft 5 in)
5.22 m (17 ft 2 in)
9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
2 × HAL - General Electric LM2500 + (30,200 kW each) 2 × MAN Diesel 12V28/33D STC (6,000 kW each)
CODOG
32 kn (59 km/h)
2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 28 kn (52 km/h) 5,500 nmi (10,200 km) at 16–18 kn (30–33 km/h)
2 × RHIB
226 (35 officers + 191 sailors)
Radar :- IAI - BEL EL/M-2248 MF-STAR S-Band AESA radar Indra - TASL Lanza-N L-band air surveillance radar Sonar :- BEL HUMSA-NG active/passive sonar Combat Suite :- "Combat Management System" (CMS-17A)
DRDO "Shakti" EW suite (equipped with ESM / ECM and "Radar Finger Printing System" (RFPS)) Decoys :- 4 × Kavach decoy launchers 2 × NSTL Maareech torpedo-countermeasure systems
Anti-air warfare :- 4 × 8-cell VLS , for 32 Barak 8 surface-to-air missiles Anti-surface warfare :- 1 × 8-cell VLS , for 8 BrahMos anti-ship missiles Anti-submarine warfare :- 2 × triple-tube torpedo launchers for Torpedo Advanced Light Shyena 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers (72 rockets) Guns :- 1 × BHEL - OTO Melara 76 mm Strales naval gun 2 × AK-630 M CIWS Multiple OFT 12.7 mm M2 Stabilized Remote Controlled Gun
1 × HAL Dhruv (or) Sea King Mk. 42B helicopters
Enclosed helicopter hangar capable of accommodating one multi-role helicopters.
First major class of Indian-designed warships to be built using integrated modular construction .
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Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 149 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 149 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 149 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 149 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
Nilgiri-class frigate (2019) equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Navy exact named equipment holdings of Nilgiri (Project 17A). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS / None. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The leading printed inventory count is retained; separately stated extra reserve, nonoperational or repair quantities inside parentheses are not added to it and remain verbatim in the excerpt. Source parentheses retain employment, lease, reporting designation, alternate model, or included-subset scopes exactly. Own fetched primary and alternate/model identity declarations are retained. Numbers inside an included subset are part of the printed count and are never added again; no sibling or parent specification is copied.