INS Tabar  INS "Tabar" (F44) (translates as "battle axe") is the third of the of the Indian Navy. The frigate was commissioned on 19 April 2004 in Kaliningrad, Russia with Captain (later Vice Admiral) Biswajit Dasgupta  . INS "Tabar," a vessel in the "Talwar" class to be armed with supersonic BrahMos anti-ship cruise missiles. She is also equipped with Barak 1 missiles. The current Commanding Officer (CO) of "Tabar" is Capt Hemant Padbidri, Sea Harrier pilot, graduate of Defence services staff College ,Wellington and the college of air warfare.  12 port commissioning cruise INS "Tabar" reached her home-port of Mumbai on 31 July 2004. Along with her sister ships ("sword" in Sanskrit) and ("trident" in Sanskrit), INS "Tabar" is assigned to Indian Navy’s Western Naval Command, head-quartered in Mumbai. INS "Tabar" is a well-equipped warship that has the ability to handle air/surface/sub-surface missions or defending herself operating either independently on maritime missions or supporting a larger naval task force. In the recent times, the ship has visited various ports of the Persian Gulf on a goodwill mission and the visit was highly successful. The ship also participated in the International Fleet Review at Visakhapatnam. It recently visited Port Louis to participate in the Mauritius National Day celebrations. INS "Tabar"s 28 officers and 232 sailors living conditions are similar to those on the Royal Australian Navy's s. Fully loaded, INS "Tabar" has a displacement of 4,035 tons. The main engines of INS "Tabar" are the Zorya/Mashproekt M7N-1E gas turbine plant comprising two DS-71 cruise turbines (each rated up to 9,000 hp) and two DT-59 boost turbines. These power-plants move INS "Tabar" to . Her maximum range is at , while at the range lessens to . One downside for INS "Tabar" and her sister ships is the amount of smoke her engines produce. The surface-to-air weapons systems include one single-rail MS-196 launcher that can launch the long range Shtil-1 (NATO: SA-17) surface-to-air missile. Eight Igla-1E (NATO: SA-16) portable air defence missiles are on board for short-range threats.