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{{Short description|Indian Navy destroyer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}
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| image = INS Ranvijay at annual bi-lateral naval field training exercise.jpg
| image_caption = INS ''Ranvijay'' during [[Exercise Malabar#2012|Exercise Malabar 2012]]
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| country = India
| flag = {{shipboxflag|India|naval}}
| name = ''Ranvijay''
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| builder = [[61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant]]
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| commissioned = 21 December 1987
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| identification = [[Pennant number]]: D55
| motto = {{lang|sn|Sangrame Vaibhavasya}} (Glorious in War)
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| status = Active
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| badge = [[File:INS Ranvijay (D55) crest.JPG|120px]]
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| class = {{sclass|Rajput|destroyer}}
| displacement = *3,950 tons standard
*4,974 tons full load<ref name=in-rajput>{{Cite web |url=http://indiannavy.nic.in/destroyers_rajput.htm |title=Surface Ships -- Indian Navy |access-date=11 August 2009 |archive-date=19 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619085343/http://indiannavy.nic.in/destroyers_rajput.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| length = {{convert|147|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| beam = {{convert|16|m|ft|abbr=on}}
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| draught = {{convert|5|m|ft|abbr=on}}
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| propulsion = 4 x gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, {{convert|72,000|hp|abbr=on}}
| speed = {{convert|35|kn|km/h}}
| range = *{{convert|4000|mi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|18|kn|km/h}}
*{{convert|2600|mi|km}} at {{convert|30|kn|km/h}}
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| complement = 320 (including 35 officers)
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| sensors = *''Air/Surface:'' [[EL/M-2238 STAR]]<ref name=nigwn>{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=The Naval Institute guide to world naval weapon systems|year=2006|publisher=Naval Institute|location=Annapolis, Md|isbn=1557502625|page=243|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4S3h8j_NEmkC&q=%E2%80%9CSurveillance+%26+Threat+Alert+Radar+-+STAR+-+EL%2FM-2238&pg=PA243|edition=5th}}</ref> (replacing MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) radar at E-band)
*''Air:'' Bharat RAWL (Dutch Signaal LW08) radar at D-band ( replacing MP-500 Kliver (NATO: Big Net-A) radar at C-band)
*''Navigation:'' 2 x Volga (NATO: Don Kay) radar at I-band frequency,
*''Communication:'' [[Inmarsat]],
*''Sonar:'' 1 x hull mounted Vycheda MG-311 (NATO: Wolf Paw) sonar replaced with Bharat HUMSA during MLR, 1 x Vyega MG-325 (NATO: Mare Tail) variable depth sonar
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| armament = *''Anti-surface:''
*8 × [[BrahMos]] supersonic missiles in aft VLS (replaced aft S-125 SAM launcher)
*4 × [[P-15 Termit|SS-N-2D Styx AShM]] missiles in inclined launchers
*''Air-defence:''
*2 × [[Barak SAM]] 8 cell launchers (port and starboard)
*1 × [[S-125 Neva/Pechora#Naval version|S-125M]] (NATO: SA-N-1) [[Surface to air missile|SAM]] launcher (Removed by 2025)
*''Guns:''
*1 x [[OTO Melara 76 mm]] [[Naval artillery|naval gun]] (replaced [[AK-726|AK-726 twin 3" naval gun]])
*2 × {{convert|30|mm|in|abbr=on|1}} [[AK-630|AK-630M]] [[Close-in weapon system|CIWS]]
*''Anti-submarine:''
*1 × {{convert|533|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} PTA 533 quintuple [[torpedo tube]] launcher,
*2 × [[RBU-6000]] anti-submarine rocket launcher.
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| aircraft = 1 × [[Ka-28]] helicopter
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'''INS ''Ranvijay''''' ({{Lit|Victorious in Battle}}) is a {{sclass|Rajput|destroyer|1}} in active service with the [[Indian Navy]]. ''Ranvijay'' was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 21 December 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-12-21 |title=Navy vessel INS Ranvijay completes 37 years |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/andhra-pradesh/navy-vessel-ins-ranvijay-completes-37-years-1848682 |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=www.deccanchronicle.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Service history==
''Ranvijay'' participated in the multinational [[Malabar 2007|Malabar Naval Exercise]] between [[Australia]], [[India]], [[Singapore]], [[Japan]] and [[United States]] in the [[Bay of Bengal]] in the years 2011-2015 and 2020-2021.

In July 2014, ''Ranvijay'', accompanied by the stealth [[frigate]] {{INS|Shivalik|F47|2}} and fleet [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]] {{INS|Shakti|A57|2}}, took part in the INDRA War Games, a naval and army counter-terrorism exercise with [[Russia]].

In November 2016, ''Ranvijay'', accompanied by the [[corvette]] [[INS Kamorta (P28)]], took part in the [[SIMBEX]] War Games, a naval exercise with [[Singapore]] Navy which bought the RSN’s stealth frigate, RSS [[Formidable-class frigate|Formidable]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.naval-technology.com/news/newsindia-and-singapore-navies-hold-simbex-2016-annual-bilateral-maritime-exercise-5661064/ |title=naval-technology.com |access-date=10 April 2017 |archive-date=11 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411054216/http://www.naval-technology.com/news/newsindia-and-singapore-navies-hold-simbex-2016-annual-bilateral-maritime-exercise-5661064/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 23 October 2021, ''Ranvijay'' caught fire at the [[Visakhapatnam]] Naval Base. Four of her crew were hospitalised.<ref name="Fleetmon35917">{{cite web |url=https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2021/35917/indian-navy-destroyer-fire-4-hospitalized/ |title=Indian Navy destroyer fire, 4 hospitalized |publisher=Fleetmon |first=Mikhail |last=Voychenco |access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>

INS ''Ranvijay'' participated at the [[International Fleet Review 2026]] held at Visakapatanam.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2026-02-14 |title=India’s indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant to steal the show in IFR 2026 in Vizag |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/indias-indigenous-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikrant-to-steal-the-show-in-ifr-2026-in-vizag/articleshow/128355649.cms |access-date=2026-02-16 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
INS ''Ranvijay'' has won the prestigious Cock Trophy in the annual Western Fleet whaler boat regatta held at the Naval Dockyard on 7 January 2006.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 January 2006 |title=INS Ranvijay triumphs |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/ins-ranvijay-triumphs/article3236972.ece |access-date=6 July 2019 |newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref>

''Ranvijay'' received the best ship of the [[Eastern Fleet (India)|Eastern Fleet]] Trophy for the year 2006–07 and 2011–12.

==Gallery==
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File:Comm.C.S. Patham and Capt. Ajith.jpg|Commander C.S. Patham and Captain [[Ajithkumar J Varma]]
File:INS Ranvijay Malabar 07.jpg| ''Ranvijay'' during [[Exercise Malabar#2007|Exercise Malabar 2007]]
File:INS_Ranvijay_(D55).jpg| ''Ranvijay'' with sailors on deck in blue uniform
</gallery>

==References==
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{{Kashin-class destroyer}}
{{Destroyers of the Indian Navy}}
{{2021 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:1986 ships]]
[[Category:Destroyers of India]]
[[Category:Destroyers of the Cold War]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 2021]]

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Tiwari63 at 01:31, 26 February 2026