ST.PETERSBURG. May 12 (Interfax-AVN) - The naval part of the commissioning tests of the Trishul frigate has ended in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard said on Monday.
The Trishul is the second vessel of Project 11356 built by the shipyard for the Indian Navy, a press service official told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"All the firings that were included in the commissioning tests program have been performed successfully. The frigate has returned from Baltiysk to St. Petersburg," the official said.
The Trishul was put up for commissioning tests after successful completion of the state tests in early April.
The frigate was laid down at Baltiysky Zavod on September 24, 1999 and set afloat on November 24, 2000. The vessel is intended for combat operations against surface ships and submarines in oceanic and naval districts, as well as for rebuffing attacks of aerial assault assets both independently and within a vessel unit acting as an escort ship.
The Trishul's main strike weapon is the Club-N anti-ship missile system developed by the Novator design bureau in Yekaterinburg especially for export to India as part of warships' armament.
In addition, the frigate is armed with a new 100-mm artillery system intended for firing at aerial and naval targets. The system consists of the A-190E single-barrel gun and the 5P- 10E fire control device. It was designed by the Nizhny Novgorod- based Burevestnik deaign bureau and produced by the Arsenal machine-building plant in St. Petersburg. The gun has the highest rate of fire among shipborne artillery assets. It fires 80 shots per minute and provides for efficient target-hitting at a distance of about 20km.
The 5P-10E Puma fire control system ensures search, detection and tracking of targets in the automatic mode. The Trebovaniye-M combat information and control system collects and processes data on targets and feeds it to all armament and defense systems of the frigate.
The vessel is fitted with the Shtil-1 medium-range multi- channel anti-aircraft missile system, the Kashtan shipborne anti- aircraft missile system, eight Igla shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile systems, two DTA-53-11356 double-pipe torpedo tubes and the RBU-600 jet bombing system. The vessel has an airstrip and hangar for basing a KA-28 Helix or KA-31 helicopter.