What is INS Teg?

About INS Teg:

• INS Teg (F45) is the first of three guided missile frigates of the modified INS Talwar-class that India commissioned Russian shipyard Yantar to build under Project-17 A (the other two are INS Tarkash and INS Trikand).
• INS Teg was commissioned into Navy service on 27 April 2012.
• The Talwar-class guided missile frigates are modified Krivak III-class frigates built by Russia.
  • These ships use stealth technologies and a special hull design to ensure a reduced radar cross-section.
  • Much of the equipment on the ship is Russian-made, but a significant number of systems of Indian origin have also been incorporated.
• The main differences between Tegand the earlier Talwar-class ships are the use of BrahMos missiles in place of the Klub-N missiles.
• Features of INS Teg:
  • It is a 3,970-tonne frigate and is armed with eight 290-km BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles. 
  • It is 125-metre-long and can operate an anti-submarineor early-warning helicopter from its deck.
  • It can reach a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph).
  • It has an operating range of 4,500 nautical miles (8334 km).
  • The stealth frigate, with its unique design, ensures a reduction in its radar cross-section,infrared, magnetic, and acoustic signatures, as well as radiated underwater noise, to heighten its stealth capabilities.

Q1: What is BrahMos?

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from land, sea, and air. It has been developed by Brahmos Aerospace, a joint venture of India and Russia. It is named after the rivers Brahmaputra (India) and Moskva (Russia). It is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine as its first stage, which brings it to supersonic speed and then gets separated. The liquid ramjet, or second stage then takes the missile closer to 3 Mach speed in the cruise phase.It is one of the fastest cruise missiles currently operationally deployed, with a speed of Mach 2.8.

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