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17/12/22 07:21 AM IST

INS Mormugao to be commissioned by Rajnath Singh

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  • INS Mormugao, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, is scheduled to be commissioned to the Indian Navy by Union defence minister Rajnath Singh at the Naval Dockyard on Mumbai.
INS Mormugao
  • INS Mormugao is the second ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided missile destroyers of the Indian Navy.
  • Named after the port city in Goa, this stealth destroyer is 163 metres long and 17 metres wide, with a displacement of 7.400 tonnes and a maximum speed of up to 30 knots (around 55 km per hour).
  • The vessel is made of 75 per cent of indigenous content, and fitted with a myriad of indigenous equipment and major indigenous weapons.
  • It is the second ship built under Project 15B, which has an overall cost of Rs.35,800 crore.
  • The ship is armed with several indigenous weapons like medium-range surface-to-air missiles, BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles having range between 290 km to 450 km.
  • It is also equipped with indigenous torpedo tube launchers (Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai), anti-submarine indigenous rocket launchers (Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai) and 76mm super rapid gun mount (BHEL, Haridwar) in addition to various gun systems having wide-range sensors.
Project 15B
  • The purpose of the Indian Navy’s Project 15B is to develop stealth destroyers having maximised indigenous inputs.
  • A total of four ships are being developed under this project. They are all designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organized, Warship Design Bureau.
  • They are built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in Mumbai.
  • They will be commissioned in Visakhapatnam, Mormugao, Imphal and Surat.
  • The project’s first vessel – INS Visakhapatnam – was commissioned into the Indian Navy in November 2021.
Source- Live Mint

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