INS Himgiri (F34)

History
Indian Navy
Name:	INS Himgiri
Namesake:	Himgiri Range
Commissioned:	23 November 1974
Decommissioned:	6 May 2005
Fate:	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class & type:	Nilgiri class frigate
Displacement:	2682 tons (standard) 2962 tons (full load)
Length:	113 m
Beam:	13 m
Draught:	4.3 m
Propulsion:	2 × 550 psi boilers 2 × 30,000 hp motors
Speed:	28 knots
Range:	4000 miles @ 12 knots
Complement:	267 (incl 17 officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	Signaal DA05 / BEL PFN513 radar Signaal LW08 / BEL RAWL02 surface radar Signaal ZW06 / BEL RASHMI navigation radar Signaal M-45 navigation radar Westinghouse SQS-505 / Graesby 750 sonar Type 170 active attack sonar
Armament:	2 × MK.6 Vickers 115mm guns 4 × AK-230 30mm guns 2 × Oerlikon 20mm guns 2 × triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or the Indian NST-58 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	1 Westland Sea King or HAL Chetak

INS Himgiri (F34) was a Nilgiri class frigate of the Indian Navy.

Himgiri was commissioned into the Navy on 23 November 1974. She was decommissioned on 6 May 2005.

Operations

INS Himgiri holds the record for the number of days at sea in a single deployment for a conventional ship of the Indian Navy.

In 1976, she was the first ship of the Indian Navy to shoot down a pilotless aircraft.