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Trending News: Defense Minister handed over INS Mormugao to Indian Navy amid tension with China, know about this destroyer


INS Mormugao Features: ‘INS Mormugao’ equipped with modern weapons has joined the Indian Navy’s fleet. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh handed it over to the Indian Navy. The joining of this warship in the Indian Navy is considered important amid the growing interference of China in the Indian Ocean region.

With the acquisition of the warship, the strength of the Indian Navy has increased considerably. It is deployed in the Navy’s Dockyard located in Mumbai. With this destroyer warship, the Indian Navy’s reach in the Indian Ocean will increase and the security of the country’s maritime borders will be greatly strengthened. INS Mormugao is named after the historic port city of Goa.

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Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said, “Today marks another milestone in the history of indigenous warship building as we commission the destroyer Mormugao. Its sister ship Visakhapatnam was commissioned into the Indian Navy a year ago. went.” The Navy Chief said, “This achievement is indicative of the great strides we have taken in warship design and construction capability over the last decade. The Navy has a tradition of naming ships after cities, establishing an enduring relationship between the two does.”

10 special things of this warship

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  • This warship had stepped into the sea for the first time on 19 December 2021. According to the information received from the Ministry of Defense, this destroyer warship has been designed by the ‘Warship Design Bureau’ of the Indian Navy and it has been built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited of Mumbai.
  • It is a completely indigenous warship and is among the deadliest warships built by India. According to the Indian Navy, this warship is equipped with remote sensing equipment, modern radar and weapon systems like surface-to-surface missiles and surface-to-air missiles.
  • Navy said, the length of this warship is 163 meters, width is 17 meters and weight is 7,400 tonnes. This warship has four powerful gas turbines, with the help of which this warship can run at a speed of more than 30 knots.
  • The warship is equipped with remote sensing equipment, modern radar and weapons such as surface-to-surface missiles and surface-to-air missiles, rocket launchers and torpedoes. Because of this, the ship of the enemy country will always be heavy.
  • The missiles fitted in this warship are capable of hitting aircraft flying in the sky from a distance of 70 km and targets on land or sea from a distance of 300 km.
  • With the help of modern radar, naval helicopters will be able to land on this warship even during very bad weather. INS Mormugao is equipped with 127 mm gun. It also has AK-630 anti missile gun system.
  • This warship has been built under Project 15B. Four destroyer warships are being built in this project. INS Visakhapatnam, the first ship of this project, was inducted into the Indian Navy last year. The construction work of the remaining two warships (INS Imphal and INS Surat) is also going on fast at Mazgaon Dockyard.
  • This indigenous warship is capable of defending even during nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. Its most important thing is that its outer layer is made of special steel, so that the enemy cannot locate it on the radar.
  • Earlier, INS Kolkata, INS Kochi and INS Chennai have come into existence under Project 15A. The special thing about Project 15A was that major Russian systems were replaced with indigenous systems.
  • Under Project 15B, India is preparing world class missile destroyers. Their quality rivals the renowned shipbuilders of America and Europe.

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