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Destroyers
INS Mormugao
The Times of India 15 Sep, 2016
The Navy's new destroyer Mormugao: 10 facts
Mormugao, the Navy's newest stealth destroyer, will be launched at the week-end in Mumbai. The vessel was built by Maximum City's Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders - India's foremost shipyard - which has already delivered six major warship to the Indian Navy since 2010.
Here are ten key facts about INS Mormugao.
1. Mormugao is the second of Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders' 15B Class Navy stealth destroyers. Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba will launch the new vessel in Mumbai on Saturday.
2.Named after a Goan city
Murmugao weighs 7,300 tonnes, and is named after the Goan port of Mormugao.
3. 'Indigenized' ship
More than 60% of the ship will be built in India. In other words, it will highly 'indigenized.' The Navy plans to increase the degree of 'indigenization' in its 15B ships to 68%.
4.A guided-missile destroyer
Mormugao is a guided-missile destoyer, a kind of warship that can launch missiles whose trajectories can be modified during flight to attack mobile targets. It will also be stealthier than its predecessor in the 15B series of destroyers.
5."More teeth" for the Navy
Mormugao has Barak-8 long-range missiles, which have been jointly developed by Israel and India. For Vice Admiral G S Pabby, the new vessel adds "more teeth" to the Navy.
6.One Mazagon ship every year since 2010
Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders has been suppying the Navy with warships at the rate of one a year since 2010. INS vessels Shivalik, Satpura, Sahyadri, Kolkata, Kochi and Chennai have all been delivered.
7.INS Vishakapatnam
The first ship in the 15B class - INS Vishakapatnam - which was lauched in April last year. It is expected to be commissioned by the Navy in 2018
8.Mormugao one of four 15B ships sanctioned
The Manmohan Singh-led UPA government had in 2011 had sanctioned four 15 B ships, and had earmarked Rs 29,700 crores for the project.
9.Vizag, Mormugao, and next, Paradip
The next ship in the 'Vishakapatnam' series is Paradip, the name of a coastal Gujarati city.
10.A stepping stone in an ambitious project
Vice Admiral G S Pabby said the launch of Mormugao was only a 'stepping stone' to even more shipbuilding. The Navy, he explained, has set itself the 'challenging' target of increasing its fleet size to 212 by 2027.
