Missile destroyer INS Mormugao commissioned into the Indian Navy
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Science & Technology
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23rd Dec, 2022
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Context
INS Mormugao, an indigenously developed missile destroyer has been commissioned into the Indian Navy.
Details:
- INS Mormugao (Pennant D67) is the second of the Project 15Bstealth-guided missile destroyers.
- It is built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL).
- The ship, named after a key port in Goa, was commissioned a day before the Goa Liberation Day celebrations.
What is Project 15B?
- The contract for four ships of Project 15B was signed in 2011.
- This Project is follow-on of the Kolkata class (Project 15A) destroyerscommissioned in the last decade.
- A total of four ships are being developed under this project.
- Visakhapatnam:The lead ship of the Project - INS Visakhapatnam has already been commissioned into the Indian Navy on 21 Nov 21.
- Mormugao
- Imphal
- Surat
- The purpose of the Indian Navy’s Project 15B is to develop stealth destroyers having maximized indigenous inputs.
- 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.
Specifications:
- Dimensions: Measuring 163m in length and 17m in breadth with a displacement of 7,400 tonnes.
- The ship is propelled by four powerful gas turbines.
- Equipped to fight under nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare.
Total atmospheric control system (TACS): Protection of the crew from chemical, biological, and nuclear threats.
- State-of-the-art combat management system
- Max Speed: 30 knots (55 km/h)
- Maximum range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km)
Weaponry
- Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles
- BrahMos surface-to-surface cruise missiles
- 127 mm main gun
- four AK-630 30 mm guns
- 533 mm torpedo launchers
- RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launchers.
Strategic significance
- High speed and manoeuvrability
- Longer endurance to be part of the escort for larger vessels
- More than 75% of the content is indigenous.
- Anti-surface operations.
- Capable of anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare