Flow chart of Classification of Indian Surface ships

Surface Ships

The names of all in service ships (and Naval Bases) of the Indian Navy are prefixed with the letters INS, designating Indian Naval Ship or Indian Navy Station. The fleet of the Indian Navy is a mixture of domestic built and foreign vessels. The Indian Navy presently has one aircraft carrier in active service, INS Vikramaditya. 

INS Viraat was decommissioned on 6 March 2017.In 2004, India bought the Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Gorshkov for the equivalent of US$974 million. It cost an additional US$1.326 billion to overhaul the vessel and refit it entirely with new electronic, weapon systems and sensors, bringing the total procurement cost to USD 2.3 billion. 

INS Vikramaditya sailed to India after her commissioning on 15 November 2013. It joined active service by December 2013.The Indian Navy has an amphibious transport dock of the Austin class, re-christened as INS Jalashwa in Indian service. It also maintains a fleet of landing ship tanks. It is expected that four more amphibious transport docks will be constructed in the future.

The navy currently operates three Kolkata, three Delhi and five Rajput-class guided-missile destroyers. The ships of the Rajput class will be replaced in the near future by the next-generation Visakhapatnam-class destroyers (Project 15B) which will feature a number of improvements.

In addition to destroyers, the navy operates several classes of frigates such as three Shivalik(Project 17 class) and six Talwar-class frigates. Seven additional Shivalik-class frigates (Project 17A class frigates) are on order.The older Godavari-class frigates will systematically be replaced one by one as the new classes of frigates are brought into service over the next decade. The last remaining Nilgiri-class frigate was decommissioned on 27 June 2013.

Smaller littoral zone combatants in service are in the form of corvettes, of which the Indian Navy operates the Kamorta,Kora, Khukri, Veer and Abhay-class corvettes.

Replenishment tankers such as the Jyoti-class tanker, INS Aditya and the new Deepak-class fleet tanker- help improve the navy's endurance at sea. The Deepak-class tankers will be the mainstay of the replenishment fleet until the first half of the 21st century.

                                   

                                           Classification of Indian Ship

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1. Vikramaditya, Viraat, Delhi Class, Rajput Class, Kolkata Class
2. Shivalik Class, Talwar Class, Kamorta Class
3. Brahmaputra Class, Godavari Class
4. Kora Class, Khukri Class
5. Veer Class, Abhay Class
6. Austin Class, Shardul Cass, Magar Class
7. Kumbhir Class, LCU (MK-3) Class
8. Sukanya Class, Saryu Class, Karwar Class
9. Fleet Tankers, Torpedo Recovery Vessels, Ocean Going Tugs, Nireekshak Class
10. Trinket Class, Super Dvora II Class, Bangaram Class, Car Nicobar Class, Immediate Support Vessels
11. Sandhayak Class, Makar Class
12. Tir Class, Sail Ships/Boats, Sagardhwani Class