Missile destroyer INS Mormugao commissioned into Indian Navy

Missile destroyer INS Mormugao commissioned into Indian Navy

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Category : Defense Published on: December 20 2022

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  • The second of the Project 15B stealth-guided missile destroyers built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL), INS Mormugao (Pennant D67), has been commissioned into the Indian Navy.
  • The ship, named after a key port in Goa, was commissioned a day before the Goa Liberation Day celebrations.
  • The ship is 163 metres long and 17 metres wide, displaces 7400 tonnes when fully loaded and has a maximum speed of 30 knots.
  • The keel of Mormugao was laid in June 2015 and the ship was launched on September 17, 2016. The design has largely maintained the hull form, propulsion machinery, a lot of platform equipment and major weapons and sensors.
  • Over the last decade, the Indian Navy has commissioned three guided missile destroyers of the Kolkata class — INS Kolkata, INS Kochi, and INS Chennai — under the project codenamed 15A.
  • All these ships were built by MDSL, one of the country’s most important Defence PSUs.
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