INS Mormugao
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INS Mormugao floats post launch
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Name: | Mormugao |
Namesake: | Mormugao |
Operator: | Indian Navy |
Builder: | Mazagon Dock Limited |
Way number: | D67 |
Laid down: | 4 June 2015 |
Launched: | 17 September 2016 |
Commissioned: | Est. 2022 |
Identification: | Pennant number: D67 |
Status: | Under construction |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | -class stealth guided missile destroyer |
Displacement: |
7,500 t (7,400 long tons; 8,300 short tons) standard 8,100 t (8,000 long tons; 8,900 short tons) full load |
Length: | 163 m (535 ft) |
Beam: | 17.4 m (57 ft) |
Draft: | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Endurance: | 45 Days |
Crew: | 300 (50 officers and 250 sailors) |
Sensors and processing systems: | |
Electronic warfare & decoys: |
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Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × Westland Sea King or HAL Dhruv[4] |
Aviation facilities: |
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INS Mormugao is the second ship of the -class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. She is being constructed at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), and has been launched on 17 September 2016. The ship is expected to get commissioned by 2022.[6]
Construction[edit]
The keel of Mormugao was laid down on 4 June 2015, and she was launched on 17 September 2016 at Mazagon Dock Limited of Mumbai.[7][8][9][10]
She is named after the port Mormugao in Goa.[11]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Naval Barak-8 Missiles, Israel, India Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, naval-technology.com, Accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Barak 8 / MR-SAM Test Program to Begin in Early 2012 Archived 2014-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
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- ↑ "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ↑ "Project 15B Guided Missile Destroyers". NAVAL TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ↑ "Navy's Most Advanced Guided Missile Destroyer "Mormugao" launched in mumbai". NDTV. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ↑ "Russia to help India build 4 guided-missile destroyers". Indrus. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ↑ "Project 15B". Global Security. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ↑ Sheshrao, Vishnudas (15 April 2015). "Indigenously built warship ready for launch". freepressjournal. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ "Navy's Next Destroyer Line Christened Visakhapatnam-class, 1st Launch Next Week". LiveFist defence. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210502092157/https://www.deccanherald.com/content/566564/navy-destroyer-named-goa-port.html