Editing Delhi-class destroyer (section)

==Development==
The design and development of the ship class began as "Project 15" in 1980. Initially, the ships were planned to be follow-on frigates of the {{sclass|Godavari|frigate|4}} with the addition of [[RBU-6000]] [[Anti-submarine warfare|ASW]] rocket launchers and gas turbine propulsion. A Soviet offer in 1983 for reversible gas turbines and modern weapon systems forced a redesign of the ships from 3,500-tonne frigates to 6,300-tonne destroyers.<ref name="hiranandani2">{{cite book|last1=Hiranandani|first1=G. M.|title=Transition to eminence: The Indian Navy 1976–1990|date=2009|publisher=Lancer|location=Delhi|pages=50–51|isbn=9788170622666|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WxI9TlAxIQC&pg=PA50}}</ref> The Directorate of Naval Design completed the design around the mid 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hiranandani|first1=G. M.|title=Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991–2000|publisher=Lancer Publishers LLC|isbn=9781935501664|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2snz5Cfb0gC&pg=RA2-PT183|language=en}}</ref> Model tests were carried out at SSPA, Sweden in 1985 and parallelly at Krylov Institute, [[Soviet Union]] in 1986. [[Severnoye Design Bureau]] provided design inputs for weapons and propulsion packages. The mutual interface suppression system for electromagnetic compatibility was supplied by the Soviets.<ref name="hiranandani2"/> The break-up of the Soviet Union affected the supply of weapon systems, contributing to a three-year delay in the construction of vessels.<ref name="jdw-17sep97"/>