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Compact damage control torch. When the ship goes dark, it doesn’t.

Name: Compact Damage Control Torch — Marinised Naval Searchlight
Brand: Neometrix

A marinised handheld searchlight designed to the Indian Navy’s staff requirement for damage-control parties: 3,000 lumens for eighty minutes, a beam that reaches through a hundred metres of dense smoke — in one hand, under 3 kg. Hard-anodised aluminium, toughened non-shattering lens, IP65-class sealing, NSS Shock Grade II, MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC, and the full JSS 55555 qualification matrix. Production drawings approved by the naval design authority; built to order in Noida.

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Representative render — compact damage control torch on a warship deck: black hard-anodised aluminium searchlight with deep-finned head, flat toughened lens, twin sealed switches, covered USB port, ribbed battery barrel and bolted finger-groove grip handle

Fig · 01 The torch — representative render of the approved design, on deck

Light Output

3,000lm high · 2,000 lm low

Endurance

80min · full output

Beam in Smoke

>100m · dense smoke

Mass

≤3kg · with accessories

Survivability

IP65+ NSS Shock Gd-II

ISO 9001 / 14001 Designed to Indian Navy SOTR Drawings approved — naval design authority JSS 55555 · MIL-STD-461 Noida · India

Overview

Power fails. Smoke fills. The torch is the plan.

When a compartment loses power — fire, flooding, action damage — the damage-control party’s first tool is not a pump or an extinguisher. It is light: enough of it, for long enough, through smoke, in one hand, from equipment that survives the same emergency it is illuminating.

Representative render — the damage control torch cutting a sharply defined white beam through dense grey smoke down a dark warship passageway, steel frames and piping barely visible

Fig · 02 The duty — a beam that holds together through dense smoke (representative render)

The compact damage control torch is designed clause-by-clause to the Indian Navy’s statement of technical requirement for exactly that duty. A solid-state light engine delivers 2,000 lumens on low and 3,000 on high through a toughened, non-shattering flat lens — a beam engineered for throw, so it penetrates more than 100 metres of dense smoke rather than blooming back into the operator’s eyes. A full charge runs at least eighty minutes at full output; the battery is a sealed module the operator swaps in seconds, so endurance is really a question of how many modules the locker holds.

The body is machined aluminium, hard-anodised against salt and hard use, sealed to IP65 class, and shaped for one gloved hand — a deep-finned head, a slim battery barrel, twin sealed switches under the thumb, and a detachable finger-groove grip. The whole torch, with accessories, stays under three kilograms and inside a 300 × 150 × 150 mm envelope — the approved design is 259 mm long.

Everything on this page exists to answer one question honestly: will it still make light after the shock, the salt, the heat and the water that put the ship in the dark?

Designed · Navy SOTR

A staff requirement, answered

The design responds line-by-line to the Indian Navy’s SOTR for compact damage-control torches — output, endurance, smoke penetration, mass, materials, sealing, shock, EMI/EMC and battery life — and its production drawings are approved by the naval design authority.

Qualification · JSS 55555

The test matrix is the proof

Acceptance-test and EMI/EMC test plans approved; qualification by the JSS 55555 environmental matrix — vibration, damp heat, mould growth, tropical exposure, salt, drip, high temperature and NSS Grade II shock — with PCBs built and screened to JSS 52300.

Useful · Beyond Light

The battery is a power bank

USB Type-C charges the module; a USB-A port discharges it — so the same battery that runs the lamp can top up radios, gas detectors or phones when a compartment’s sockets are dead. Charge state reads out at 25/50/75/100%.

Architecture

One hand. Eighty minutes. A hundred metres of smoke.

The elevation below is the approved design as the drawings define it — light engine, battery module, controls, sealing and the qualification regime around them.

FIG · 03APPROVED DESIGN · SIDE ELEVATION · TYPE-TEST MATRIX

Fig · 03 259 mm end to end — finned head, replaceable battery barrel, twin sealed switches, USB charge/discharge, detachable grip

Arc · 01

The Light Engine

The staff requirement framed the duty around a 30 W metal-halide HID lamp; the approved production design delivers the same 2,000/3,000-lumen low/high duty with a solid-state light engine — instant full output, no restrike delay, no fragile arc capsule, and endurance the battery can actually sustain. The reflector and flat toughened lens are engineered for throw: a tight, high-intensity core that stays legible through smoke at over 100 m, with ≥80 minutes at full output on one charge.

Arc · 02

The Battery Module

A sealed lithium-ion module — 12–18 V, ≥4,000 mAh, standard COTS cell format — threads into the barrel on an M53 interface and swaps in seconds. It charges on or off the torch in ≤4 hours, reads out charge at 25/50/75/100%, warns at low voltage and low capacity, and a deep-discharge cutoff at 70% of rated voltage protects the cells. Design life ≥5 years or 1,000 charge cycles, maintenance-free.

Arc · 03

The Marinised Body

High-strength aluminium, hard-anodised; corrosion-resistant against marine salt and oil contamination, fire-resistant and high-impact. Ingress protection is IP65-class per IS 12063, shock is NSS Grade II, and the torch must work — and keep working — at 65 °C for fifteen minutes and 90% relative humidity. Twin sealed switches give continuous, press-to-operate and low/high control; the finger-groove grip handle unbolts when the stowage demands it.

Arc · 04

Charging & Assurance

The rugged charger reaches full in ≤4 hours from 220 V shipboard supplies at 50 or 60 Hz, cuts off automatically, and carries 250 V over-voltage protection with cabling per IS 5608. USB Type-C charging and USB-A discharge add the power-bank function. Electronics are built on PCBs per JSS 52300, environmentally stress-screened, EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461 — with ≥1,000 h MTBF and an 8-hour burn-in on the first 10% of any production batch.

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Specifications

Reference specification, as approved.

The parameters below reflect the design approved against the Indian Navy’s SOTR. Output, battery format and qualification regime are re-scoped against your specification.

Full specification — expand

Product	Compact damage control torch — marinised handheld searchlight for shipboard emergency parties · design, manufacture, qualification and documentation
Light Output	2,000 lm (low) / 3,000 lm (high) · solid-state light engine delivering the duty the SOTR framed for a 30 W metal-halide HID lamp · instant full output
Beam	Throw-optimised reflector behind a flat toughened, non-shattering lens · penetration >100 m in dense smoke
Endurance	≥80 minutes at full output on one charge · extended duty on low mode · battery swappable in seconds for continuous operations
Controls	Main + auxiliary sealed push switches on the head shoulder · continuous ON, press-to-operate (momentary), and low/high selection · operable with one gloved hand
Body & Envelope	High-strength hard-anodised aluminium · approved design 259 mm long, head Ø108 mm, barrel Ø54 mm — within the SOTR envelope of 300 × 150 × 150 mm · ≤3 kg with all accessories · detachable contoured finger-groove grip handle
Ingress & Environment	IP65-class ingress protection per IS 12063 · splash- and hose-tolerant · operation at 65 °C for ≥15 min · humidity to 90% RH · tolerant of salt and oil contamination · fire-resistant, high-impact construction
Shock & Vibration	Shock to NSS Grade II (JSS 55555 T.24 regime) · vibration 2–33 Hz per JSS 55555 T.28
Battery	Replaceable sealed Li-ion module · 12–18 V · ≥4,000 mAh · standard COTS cell format · M53 × 3 thread interface, 168 mm × Ø54 module · maintenance-free · life ≥5 years / 1,000 cycles · deep-discharge cutoff at 70% rated voltage · low-voltage & low-capacity warnings
Charging	≤4 h to full · on-torch or off-torch · automatic cut-off at full charge · charge-state indication 25/50/75/100% · rugged charger, 220 V 50/60 Hz shipboard supplies · 250 V over-voltage protection · cabling per IS 5608 · charger shock-rated NSS Grade II
Power-Bank Function	USB Type-C charge input · USB-A discharge output to power other damage-control equipment — radios, detectors, phones
Electronics & EMC	PCBs designed and assembled per JSS 52300 · COTS components · environmental stress screening per naval QA policy · EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461
Qualification	JSS 55555:2012 (Rev 03) type-test matrix — vibration (T.28), high temperature 55 °C/16 h (T.17), drip proof (T.11), damp heat (T.10), mould growth 28 days (T.21), tropical exposure 7 cycles (T.27), salt corrosion (T.9), shock NSS Gd-II (T.24) · type test at NABL-accredited / government labs, valid 5 years
Assurance	Quality assurance plan approved by the naval quality authority before manufacture · factory acceptance tests witnessed · 8-hour burn-in on the first 10% of each batch · MTBF ≥1,000 h · warranty ≥1 year
Scope & Support	On-board spares per scale — spare battery set, spare lamp units, general-purpose tools · technical manuals per JSS 0251 · 10-year product-support undertaking
Status	Engineered to order — designed to the Indian Navy’s SOTR; production drawings, acceptance-test plan and EMI/EMC test plan approved · configurable to customer specification

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Damage Control Torch — Capability Sheet

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Variants

One torch discipline, many fleets.

Requirements call this a damage-control torch, an emergency searchlight, an NBCD lantern or a marinised handlamp. The architecture answers all of them.

Var · 01

The Approved Design

The 259 mm, 3,000-lumen configuration on this page — solid-state light engine, M53 battery module, USB charge/discharge — as approved against the Indian Navy’s SOTR.

Var · 02

Fleet Outfits

Scale-of-issue batches with witnessed factory acceptance, burn-in, on-board-spares kits, spare battery pools and multi-unit charging arrangements for ships’ damage-control lockers and training schools.

Var · 03

Other Qualification Regimes

The same design engineered to other navies’ environmental and shock standards — alternative test matrices, mains voltages and ingress classes — with the qualification evidence pack built to the customer’s regime.

Var · 04

The Wider Electrical Line

Shipboard battery chargers, mobile rectifiers and portable power equipment from the same naval-electrical engineering line — qualified to the same shock, EMI/EMC and documentation discipline.

Applications

Where it serves.

Wherever the lights can fail and the work cannot.

A · 01Warship damage-control & firefighting parties — power failure, smoke, flooding

A · 02Submarine compartments — emergency illumination in confined, sealed spaces

A · 03NBCD & firefighting training schools — smoke-chamber and DC-simulator drills

A · 04Coast guard, merchant marine & offshore platforms — marinised emergency lighting

A · 05Port, refinery & industrial emergency response — smoke-penetrating searchlights

A · 06Export navies & shipyards — subject to Government of India authorisation

FAQ

Common questions.

Plain-language answers from the engineering team.

Q · 01 What makes a damage-control torch different from a good industrial torch?

The duty cycle and the survival case. A commercial torch is designed to make light; a damage-control torch is designed to make light after the event that killed the ship’s power — so the specification is written around shock to naval Grade II, salt, oil, fire-resistance, 65 °C operation, IP65-class water exposure and electromagnetic compatibility with the ship’s systems, before a single lumen is counted. Then the duty: at least eighty minutes at full output, one-handed, with controls a gloved thumb can find in the dark. Most torches meet some of that list. The SOTR requires all of it at once.

Q · 02 How does a beam penetrate 100 metres of dense smoke?

By putting the energy in a tight core instead of a wide wash. Smoke defeats torches two ways: it absorbs light along the path, and it scatters light back into the operator’s eyes, which is why a wide flood beam in smoke mostly illuminates the smoke. The answer is throw optics — a deep reflector and flat lens that concentrate the 3,000-lumen output into a high-intensity core with a controlled corona. The core carries the distance; the corona gives just enough context to move. That geometry, not raw lumens, is what the >100 m smoke-penetration requirement actually tests.

Q · 03 The requirement mentioned an HID lamp. Why is the approved design solid-state?

The staff requirement benchmarked the duty on a 30 W metal-halide HID lamp — the brightest compact technology of its drafting era. HID, however, needs a warm-up to full brightness, cannot restrike instantly after interruption, and carries a fragile arc capsule. The approved production design delivers the same 2,000/3,000-lumen duty with a solid-state light engine: instant full output, instant restrike, no capsule to break under Grade II shock, and meaningfully better endurance from the same battery. The drawings carrying that engineering were approved by the naval design authority — the duty is the requirement; the technology is how it is best met.

Q · 04 What does JSS 55555 qualification actually involve?

JSS 55555 is the tri-service environmental test standard, and the torch’s matrix reads like a naval career: vibration at 2–33 Hz, sixteen hours at 55 °C, drip exposure, damp heat, twenty-eight days of mould growth, seven cycles of tropical exposure, salt corrosion, and shock to NSS Grade II — plus IP65-class ingress per IS 12063 and EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461. Because the SOTR treats this as a first-of-type item for the service, it requires the design to be validated by full type test at NABL-accredited or government laboratories, with the results valid for five years. Production then inherits the proof: witnessed acceptance tests and burn-in on every batch.

Q · 05 What is the power-bank function for?

A damage-control party’s other equipment — radios, gas detectors, intercoms, phones — dies in the same blackout the torch is built for. The battery module therefore charges over USB Type-C and discharges over a USB-A port, so a spare module in the DC locker is not just torch endurance: it is a sealed, shock-rated power bank built for the same environment as everything else in the bag. Charge state reads out at 25/50/75/100%, and a deep-discharge cutoff protects the cells no matter what is plugged into it.

Q · 06 What is the current status — and can you build to our specification?

The torch is engineered to order. The design exists at production-drawing level — drawn to the Indian Navy’s SOTR, with the drawings, acceptance-test plan and EMI/EMC test plan approved by the naval authorities — and manufacture, type test and delivery are undertaken against contract. For other navies, coast guards or industrial fleets, the qualification programme is re-scoped to your environmental and shock regime, your mains voltages and your documentation standards, with a clause-by-clause compliance matrix returned within two working days of receiving the specification. Export engagements are managed end-to-end, subject to Government of India authorisation.

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ISO 9001 / 14001 DESIGNED TO INDIAN NAVY SOTR JSS 55555 · NSS SHOCK GD-II · MIL-STD-461 MADE IN NOIDA · INDIA

Compact damage control torch. When the ship goes dark, it doesn’t.

Power fails. Smoke fills. The torch is the plan.

A staff requirement, answered

The test matrix is the proof

The battery is a power bank

One hand. Eighty minutes. A hundred metres of smoke.

The Light Engine

The Battery Module

The Marinised Body

Charging & Assurance

Reference specification, as approved.

One torch discipline, many fleets.

The Approved Design

Fleet Outfits

Other Qualification Regimes

The Wider Electrical Line

Where it serves.

Common questions.

Naval & shipboard equipment from Neometrix.

Mobile Rectifier / Battery Charger Unit

Pressure Reducing Panel — HP Air

7.62 mm M13 Disintegrating Belt Link

Send your damage-control
torch specification.

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Compact damage control torch. When the ship goes dark, it doesn’t.

Power fails. Smoke fills. The torch is the plan.

A staff requirement, answered

The test matrix is the proof

The battery is a power bank

One hand. Eighty minutes. A hundred metres of smoke.

The Light Engine

The Battery Module

The Marinised Body

Charging & Assurance

Reference specification, as approved.

One torch discipline, many fleets.

The Approved Design

Fleet Outfits

Other Qualification Regimes

The Wider Electrical Line

Where it serves.

Common questions.

Naval & shipboard equipment from Neometrix.

Mobile Rectifier / Battery Charger Unit

Pressure Reducing Panel — HP Air

7.62 mm M13 Disintegrating Belt Link

Send your damage-controltorch specification.

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torch specification.